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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  consistently lead me out of the classroom and into projects more applied or ... of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... encourage the culture of procrastination :-), my hall has a tradition of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... University, had this advice in his most recent entry: 1. Time for a self ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  university (Univ of British Columbia), can I still apply as a freshman when I ... universities. ------------------------------------- Jacqueline wrote: "I applied ... been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I ... *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have ... (Principle Investigator) at some University. A PI is the head of a lab at a ... will find there are two groups of people. There is group A that despises

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  ! We invite MIT undergrads to apply to be social members of the house ... school in terms of cross-admits with MIT. If you apply to both and get ... Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines ... It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  't Pepsi. MIT's a university, so maybe the concept of a graphic identity for a university is something that's relatively recent. As part of the ... of universities, MIT's 2003 logo doesn't seem so recent anymore. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  classes and one of my middle school teachers encouraged me to apply to a ... of the program, and I was accepted. When I applied, I didn’t mention it ... IAP externship offer for the month of January and had the opportunity

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  [annotation note="University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program ... One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  than threats." To universally accept this concept, of course, would ... issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  course of study and institutional offerings. ... At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  provide a general time frame of "what's next?" -I offer all of my ... my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  drove me to apply to MIT again, and a stroke of luck got me admitted to ... unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... percentage of students who choose to accept our offer of admission. The wait ... halls, for example. This year, 78% of the students we admitted chose to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... . About 75% of the MIT kids who apply to medical school are accepted each ... school. Two of her close friends from MIT and a number of other students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006