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  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most basic idea is, go see 21 this weekend! But wait, there's more... Please take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  So, if you've been deferred, you may be asking, "What now?" Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  th president, Dr. L. Rafael Reif, is a member of First Gen! ... The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... man read in a very distinct voice quite a pertinent and touching reply

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  . Please note that MIT is not a member of the Common Application. MIT has its ... Educational Counselor (EC), within a couple days of registering. You should ... and binding, and ability to be viewed in a 2-D environment, before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... unparalleled. So true. MIT has produced a number of Rhodes Scholars, Gates

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  that this is not a statement about my entire high school. During my ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this time, I've got plenty of volunteers from a wide array of backgrounds, so I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... , Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. History 21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  any information session are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning ... other schools have this, but basically a week between finals and ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  MIT isn’t a political campus. Sure, it had its moments during the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning ... excitement when I saw a poster advertising her upcoming MIT visit, which was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  really is just a nice memory. So after waking across the bridge last night ... I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A ... comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA ... (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students ... to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  is a kickstarter called The Institvte: A Photobook: Hi! My name is Mark ... Institvte is a story about a school, its architecture and environment. Most of all, it's a story about culture, mindset, and people. MIT is known as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  walking by. Imagine a culture where David Hasselhoff is a tabloid celebrity ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... with a cliffhanger--Ruth asking about an entry on David Hasselhoff. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006