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  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps ... blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  reported that we have received a record high 11,231 applications this year ... committee). While the article (as Ben has pointed out) contains a number of factual errors, it does also correctly state that we have seen a rise in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even ... . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past week and a half. As always, my recent trip meant missing some cool events ... directory (post your picture!), a list of local admitted student meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too ... . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... . I wasn't expecting that to happen...but through your comments, your ... joy; when others of them weren't, their sorrow was mine, too. And for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... January 11 Hostel Colonial House, Quito I'm currently wearing two t ... even more startled to hear "DON'T GO THERE. IT IS TOO DANGEROUS. TAKE A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  "ss" not "zz!" You know who doesn't care about apostrophes? A pirate ... of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power ... do a SuperUROP next semester but I'm pushing it off until I have more ... because he won't have done any science competitions or worked in a lab by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... Dreilпњљпњљnderpunkt! My blogging will be a little sparser in the near future because I'm ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  : Eight times forty-two is a big number. Big enough that I won't feel like ... say the line, "I don't have tuberculosis, but I think I'm catching You ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  or anything. But back to classes. This semester, I'm taking a 12-unit ... totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't ... this question from someone with a 2.0 GPA, or some similar blatant app ... ?" But I'm only getting it from intelligent, accomplished, creative

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  credit, but I'm a firm believer in preserving sanity over the summer. (Plus ... cheerleading captain the same weekend, and I didn't sleep or shower for a couple ... lived disproportionately in my dorm, but I didn't have a problem doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  vast majority of people who apply aren't admitted. See it as a great ... wouldn't worry. Emigna, wrote, "A question about sending in extra ... I made a mistake? Or will they think that I'm lying?! Help, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  don’t have a car. [Having a car on campus is pretty impractical unless ... halfway across the world. Sorry I didn't take a picture...].   12:30 - Lunch at Chipotle Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of food on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... trebuchets, a handmade wooden kayak, little robotic wooden men. He continued this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005