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  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... whens of financial aid at MIT -- how your financial aid award was ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2027. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... -traditional pathways. You should choose an institution that will offer rigorous academic coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school. We understand that high schools have different offerings and families ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it isn't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that ... while you're at other events. Again, that's not to hide this aspect of MIT ... Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  . "Wait...you mean...there are things I'm good at?" After 3 years of MIT, I know there are lots of things I'm not good at. Like differential ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  offer a view of Mt. Hood. I was excited to go to Portland for a totally ... Croak.” At camp this year, Thu, another JC, had the brilliant idea of ... honors the holiday, but at Mathcamp, we get out a bag of jumbo marshmallows

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went ... bilingual, I was envious of the linguistic capabilities of the students at ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots ... Thursday at a dinner with MIT's Undergraduate Women in Physics, of which I am ... faculty members outside of class while scoring free dinners at top

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  one of us answered. One day, at the end of class, he told me that the ... to Preston’s note. * * * Much of First Light takes place at Caltech ... (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  . We then crossed some checkpoints and arrived at the base of Sakiya, the ... ; Near the end of the week, we spent an evening at a home of a local artist ... , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  (after having let us have a crack at it first) of the same documents that ... her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the sacrifice. By some stroke of luck, I found a large cookie platter at ... both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... -term health of modern astrophysics from having cultivated public support at its ... fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  for another dinner afterwards at one of my favorite restaurants ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  I've realized that at this point I've pretty much conveyed this type of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I ... attempts at not getting buried under mountains of work. Sometimes I fail, but

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  class at Harvard, in the Graduate School of Education (all Harvard ... ). At the end of the day, I was glad to call MIT my home (as I prefer MIT ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005