Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants ... Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... , manufacturing, testing, and operating a radio controlled aircraft to meet mission specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  MIThenge, after Stonehenge in England, and not to be confused with "Mitt ... amateur astronomer in Colorado, appears to have one of the most accurate ... If you hang around MIT long enough you'll begin to notice some

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings ... This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... Kresge Little Theater, MIT Free and open to the public Co-Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Boston A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ... will need to turn in late because i've used up my one and only extension in the course. i am supposed to have read the hunger games for CMS.307

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in ... factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  -international sentiment and are reconsidering their decision to apply to universities in ... community in January that references MIT's mission to "best serve the nation ... In January, President Trump signed Executive Order 13769, or "travel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today ... will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... in the air. ''One idea was encryption," he says. ''The other was to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You ... have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo-lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ; You may log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , forcing the attentive student in lecture to sit up quite high, as well as ... faith in the higher-ups to choose the correct chair so I made sure to let ... MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging ... , designers, and models who won awards in this post. If you want to see more ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022