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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you who were admitted, CONGRATS. You completely deserve it and you should be very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  , personifying the adage "knowledge will guide you." On its left hand is a pocket ... " and "much cool". The bezel is also a scratch-n-sniff, with the available ... "Tool" are seen floating in the waters. To "tool" a pset is to work on it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  levels. Coming from a conservative, 90+% white town where diversity meant "Are you Catholic or are you Methodist?", a school with no majority race ... infectious. It really is the coolest place on earth (proof in a future blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online ... meeting you over the coming weeks through the blogs and, of course, CPW. And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  appeared in The New Yorker in 1978. You can read the 650-word story (which I ... lectures a week (~15 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Buzard is ... a week (~20 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Lipkowitz

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... encountered. A frazzled post-doc in my lab today told me that science is all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... all of this is that it would have been impossible to choose between you had we been able to take a few, because each of you has a ton of heart

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  role we have to play, and I can tell you I consider nothing more ... , but is a tenured professor in Math at MIT. (Wow.) [Not as wow as being ... felt a sense of accomplishment like never before, and I knew I was ready

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute see alan's post :)

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-cant-hear-you-youre-on-mute/

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  MIT students, that change is continuous, like paint gliding across a ... freshman year: You Will Be Surprised What You Can Do When You Are Forced ... the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the ... universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  . Lander (who was my Introductory Biology teacher; you can also choose to ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get your letter by March 18, please give us a call. Right now, the decision ... In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  . You can fill out our Tell us about yourself! form and you will be added ... a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a cloudy morning...but wait, there's more. Do you see what I see? Take ... C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  little better. I recently got a phone with a camera that is actually pretty ... Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I ... roughly fifteenth grade. A lot has changed, but some things remain the same

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative ... Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal about deadlines. Rather than give you my own "don't panic" advice, I ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  blog is for those of you who love this school already and for those of ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008