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  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of ... some of you will apply for this job when you graduate! The series ... applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Action — 29,282 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2029. As of ... students have until May 1 to decide whether or not to accept our offer of ... fellow mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  know) as a frosh. How many of them live in the same hall as you? How many ... upperclassmen on your hall or in your major provide some amount of support to ... This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  rest of Random Hall in playing with glowsticks and running around various ... 9 AM: Departure from Mattress, Top Bunk, 212 Random Hall, Cambridge ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad ... dining hall, the second day most of us eased up so we were all very ... getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write ... often to formal dinners and other things. And a lot of the dining halls

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... quick summary of what you'll find... Freshman Applications 12,445 Freshman ... ,163 Waitlisted 499 International students Applied 2,745 Admitted 119 Middle 50

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  applied to us, something difficult for all involved. Of those 18 ... unable to offer admission, please remember that, as one of our bloggers ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... , on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  kinds of opportunities MIT offers – and these only to a local high school ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... 't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but occasionally some students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been ... Globe (free registration required) which gives a good overview of the problem and the steps that universities, including MIT, Harvard, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Random Hall. One of Random's popular, perennial events during CPW and ... As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  -furnished prayer hall filled with everything a Muslim student would need. Out of all ... enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it. Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... great resource for those students applying to MIT from outside of the US ... .e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling ... "][/annotation], I still really enjoyed the content. The first third of the course was

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  University of Washington. UW is in the [annotation note="The other two being ... -computer interaction, and in undergrad, I had always toyed with the idea of applying ... Twitch laid off 20% of its staff, I accepted UW’s offer. A few months later

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025