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  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... a beautiful thing. One of my favorite things that I've done over IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We ... Portlet This portlet will display a thumbnail of a poster, which can be

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... , and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Great Snowfall. Denizens of Random Hall, fully armed with boffer swords ... Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... students accept our offer on May 1, and also a great deal of uncertainty

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  decline our offer of admission). Getting hungry, fruitlessly searching for ... over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this ... . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... can officially accept MIT's offer of admission (i.e. let us know they ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors ... institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... universe knows that something is up. Oh wait, something is: the letters are

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Hall. It's a pretty big deal: they close off that entire portion of the ... of the dancing masses, felt compelled to take this picture of City Hall ... Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  certain denizens of Random Hall. Since I've been having difficulties making ... It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009