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International Selection Day 1
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the -
Blog / Admissions
Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.
year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted -
Blog / Events
Normalville
Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles... We had a wall full of unsolved puzzles to work through. Of course, we also solved many -
Blog / Admissions
First read
Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I don’t have a school counselor?
school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades -
FAQ / International applicants
How do international students apply to MIT?
to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this
that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS
reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the -
Blog / Events
Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works
. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago -
Blog / How to Human
Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school
"This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... be happy" [annotation note="First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes"]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn -
Blog / How to Human
Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery
by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or ... be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th -
Blog / MIT Life
Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans
. This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers
future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful ... alert as soon as the next round of tickets were announced. A week later it -
Blog / Admissions
Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video
/14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications ... . As most of you probably know, we have long sent our admitted -
Blog / Academics & Research
Español Foreign Languages at MIT
spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704 -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set
and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum
Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... dinner a few months ago, Bertucci’s was the obvious choice of venue. It
