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  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  MIT has participated in a legal challenge to immigration policies ... cites the DACA case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a 2017 decision ... precedent. In a letter to the community announcing the lawsuit, MIT President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or ... ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  letting us know how much you love MIT. We thank you for your patience during ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield"). This year, our yield is going to be around 72-73 percent. Last year, it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this ... in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... your cross stitching gear and learn how to cross stitch a cool custom MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time ... a professional artist. The outcome is below:

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  relations in a world that is just a step away from our own. Her: Ex Machina ... reading so can't say too much yet, but it deals with hard topics in a ... chamomile tea in hand, and snuggle up with a book? We have a lot of these

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  would obviously be a bad idea. In other school news, for those of you who ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  in the future. ~Kirsten Also on the bezel is the green building, how ... references! On the Bezel's sidewalk is a footprint, commemorating the life of ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate from the light source. It's a phenomenon that is so epic, particularly in the context of a chemistry class, that no amount of astonished

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... find out that you there was even a full major at MIT in both writing and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more ... away at problem sets or studying. For a much better (and more musical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do I complete the visa section on the application?

  Only students who currently hold a visa complete this section of the application. The International Students Office assists all admitted students through the visa application process in May.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

   Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances ... wristwatch time from A to B is minimized." 3:01pm "Metrics in general ... old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... slightly embellished story that is nonetheless true in its essentials. Before ... times two is four!” I chanted with a rhythm fit to rival a metronome. “Two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  , sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... 're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers ... 'll play this as a guessing game: how many freshman applications do you think ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007