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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or ... by the end of this.” “Dude you’re literally going to lose.” “You ... the letter would drop (I lived on the west coast), brushed my teeth, and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically ... , after 12+5 days! I'll let pictures tell the story of this last two weeks ... required to attain 8 PE points before the end of his/her sophomore year* as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended ... accomplishment. a. Cambridge Community Center (CCC): I'm a member of the Boston ... to teach about fifteen kids (between the ages of 8-12) about Italy! We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  the most of your opportunity. So the next question is... how do you make the most of whatever opportunity you seize next spring? ... -chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  offer as the regular part of the aforementioned hike. The benefits that ... the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most ... hours of sleep, the scenery at Glacier National Park almost brought me to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... celebrity!!! On the FPOP, we got to visit the graves of many Founding Fathers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... crags of shadow underneath my eyes. when i dream the dreams are of circuit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  preparation includes—at the very least—one year each of college-level calculus ... institutional offerings. The transfer admissions process is highly competitive ... of 35–50 who apply for the spring term, we've admitted from 0–5; for
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another college ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  scary, but with the help of [annotation note="the most effective way to ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D7vbGagJvQ&feature=youtu.be CMS.335 is about the basics of principles of documentary, particularly the production of [annotation note="the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... (in the interest of full disclosure) you should know that we will be ... and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... . This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  -existent because of the distinct and critical lack of things to climb. Out in West ... 'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015