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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... nose should lose water to the higher-concentration salt solution, which ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university level. The transfer application is intended for students who have
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action ... deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action ... deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... up the bio and pics, and then waited some more until I came back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

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

  is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level. Depending on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science ... At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  Beginning tomorrow (Saturday), MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... I look forward to meeting you at the biggest admitted students party

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  trying to avoid the deadly ice storm. After that I'll be taking 10.391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now ... DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two months furiously writing and rewriting their personal essays to [annotation note="Congrats! You made it!"]meet the early action deadline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  , due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who ... : Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don ... Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  ']Learned how to use a hair stick[/annotation] Got stuck in a slinky Embarked ... ='courtesy of my dorm East Campus setting up a ropes rig in the courtyard ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  So on my way back from my BE.370 recitation, walking down the ... discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the ... passing through, the free food was Italian coffee and sushi. So all week

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our ... last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... . Well done! In total, I counted 95 guesses between 10,000 and 20

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  fun to see their evolution in one montage of clips:   What video ... I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... silent film that was almost an hour long! An HOUR! What was it even like to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A ... of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one ... visit the Quadric Designs website. Until the next time, stay tuned to the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline please check MyMIT

  

  , fax the missing documents to 617.687.9184. Please allow for five ... Hi all- This is a quick update for our Early Action applicants ... everything into our system. If you have applied to us Early Action, please

  • by Kris Guay
  • November 14, 2013