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  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  each other's lives. Even with at least four months of separation, though ... weekend of the BCS championship game in Gainesville with my friends at UF ... I'm back at Senior Haus. It feels great - already I've been part of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  more than 8,000 students at MIT over the past 25 years, more than half of ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... :50: "There are a lot of geniuses at MIT, but there are also some that feel like ... student at MIT - see her MIT mug in front of her) 5:04 to 5:11: "There's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  battleground at Concord (plus a lot of other really cool places). But the fun ... being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  stand at roughly 70 degrees. I’d drawn up the designs earlier that week ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 685. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < ... , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... still hard at work cutting the final pieces of cardboard. 5:23 PM

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  many people are on the wait list? We offered less than 4% of applicants ... 1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of ... choosing the best fit college of those who have offered you admission. Wait

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  many people are on the waitlist? We offered approximately 3% of ... other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another ... choosing the best fit college of those who have offered you admission

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  bunch of friends at midnight, but got distracted by Dennis '08 and Bethany ... , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... 's against the wall, which at EC is a signal of being in authority: Schuyler

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... interest in the intersection of humans and computing at MIT, and a rapidly ... offer insights to improve the social, cultural, and political impact of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... days... enjoy them! 390 --> 522 I've been noticing lots of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  race to 2021. For those of you more technical folk, Nimby was car #4 at ... race, which started in Independence, Missouri, at the start of the Santa ... all the teams had to also consider how to keep the battery of the car at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of ... Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1988

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  that I don't want a job that comes out of a poli-sci degree, but instead ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... , because part of it feels "useless"? Which is a common dilemma at a strongly

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025