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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will ... of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can ... words when I next write. But today - instead of feeling such sadness as I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to arrive. Hundreds of families checked in during the first several hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their ... founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  entry So this weekend, me and my friend Yonas went to Head of the Charles. For those of you who don't know, Head of the Charles, is a regatta where ... pretty big sport at MIT. This is one of the few sports that you can just

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes aired last night. ABC describes it like this: The opportunity of a lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the past two decades in studying manifestations of popular culture such as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact ... wrong. To those of you who were on the waitlist, particularly those of you with whom I've been corresponding these past couple of months - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... hope you're listening!   Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  ; Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  ; Computer Science (EECS) is everywhere. Each year, EECS prepares hundreds of ... , nanotechnology and more. Part of both the Schwarzman College of Computing and the School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was straightforward, but winning them was not. The top-ranked players of each game were ... response was determined by the collective responses of all the other players

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have regular psets, but almost all of my classes have assigned reading! A week's worth of reading...even in technical classes! :O Recently a big chunk of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  . Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you ... fruit, what kind of fruit would it be? 3) What is the most appropriate

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is ... because the sun stays out past 6 pm. No, the start of spring means one thing ... games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025