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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  exclusively online. To reiterate: don't wait for decisions to arrive via email ... year, we received 15,661 applications for admission, a record number for us and a 17% increase over last year. We admitted 1597 students for an

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  wildfires. Half a million people have evacuated their homes, and more than ... has 646 public schools, with nearly 500,000 students. A thousand homes ... size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  ACT hasn’t resolved this issue in a few weeks, we will put out a ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... scores from ACT will reach us in a few weeks, in plenty of time for EA

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... 's questions: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  will provide them with a well-rounded education. Will they graduate from MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  and I got to talk to some people who I haven't seen for more than a ... cream and jam, and drinking tea, of course. For those of you who don't ... trips to fun places. While this sounds like a lot of fun and something

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  different situations, we see that a leader doesn’t fit a mold. That’s why ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills ... interdisciplinary problem-solving, MIT is uniquely equipped, and obliged, to make a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  didn’t have a particularly strong presence in the selection of works, but ... Nguyen’s 67-minute length film. I don’t really have a benchmark to base my ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  #Commencement #MITAlumni A post shared by MIT Admissions (@mitadmissions) on Jun 8 ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... MIT education confers. An excerpt: i don't sleep with my grad rat on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... was a rich sense of community that developed out of this house and it

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  the thing which casts a shadow. It's the contours of where the light isn't ... data as being predictive or revealing: What's happening here is a ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our ... that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will once again be considered ... submitted. (A little historical data: over the past seven years, the average

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... well; I had just come back from FLP (Freshman Leadership Program), a Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will once again be considered ... submitted. (A little historical data: over the past six years, the average

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... , it went off without a hitch, with about fifty staff members and 400 ... a row house on Commonwealth Avenue (two minutes from Fenway Park.) The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  patients. But being in a hospital "doesn't necessarily give you the ... There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... origins of schizophrenia and autism. They talk a little bit about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005