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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the ... prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about psets. Problem sets are the backbone of our teaching in many subjects ... . Faculty vary as to the portion of course credit derived from psets. In some cases
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s alive! I built a little car.

  

  design process tomorrow, once I actually finish designing and building it. My car is sitting in front of me begging for some TLC. UPDATE Today, in lab, Professor Blanco helped me on my car! Thus, it's still not done

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  the last 6 years I have lived in 4 houses, had 3 careers, and 2 kids. I think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action: Decisions Now Available An announcement.

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the class of 2015 are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision ... -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get ... being put together in parallel with everything else going on. If the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Happy International Women's Day! I've talked before about how MIT ... in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  of sucked, other than Sara Bareilles :p) ----- (2) I'll let Shaq speak for himself: "You wanna go to Harvard? I wanna go to MIT. You wanna study chemistry? I wanna study biology." So yeah, basically Shaq is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  I just got this email, and I'm excited. Any recommendations on who we should take out to dinner or where we should go out to eat? Mitra ... Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  , sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li (Urban Planning) ’12 is blogging from Cambodia, where the D-Lab team ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  raising at least $400. In general, I'm not that great at fundraising because ... Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  Today, MIT alum Pat Antaki '84 will compete in the Olympics. He will compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C ... -- he received his Masters and PhD from MIT in Course 18: Mathematics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005