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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... start on your degree. (For the vast majority, that’s not the case, and ... , and I never gave a passing thought to university admissions as a high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  !!! :')                                                                     Also^ a reflection on my current state of life. Less (or possibly more

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  BOOM! CPW is now over and dear sweet gummy bear in the sky was it exhausting. I don’t think I went to bed before 5 every morning. From BBQs to…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  pick up my diploma, President Reif will say "wait, who are you? we don't have a diploma for you. do you even go here?" Or maybe in a little over

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... Mechanical Engineering was pretty easy. I thought that an undergraduate degree ... -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... students of 1885-1895 and the MIT students of today. By 1895, 38 States, 1 ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  ), admitted by two (both local state schools), and waitlisted at one. I got off ... transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time ... twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... universe. I've always liked to take the telescope out at night and look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  ,927 Admitted regular action (including deferred students) 898 Offered a place ... ; Ethnicity US Citizens & Permanent Residents Number of US states ... ; Plains States 10% Southwest & Mountain 10% West Coast, Alaska, &

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a ... pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  between the Oregon State University and the University of Colorado ... a state similar to stem cells, prefatory cells that can develop into ... well. Three summers ago, biologists from the University of the Andes in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence ... offer insights to improve the social, cultural, and political impact of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 722 applicants ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X ... colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 454 applicants ... ? For example, if someone from state X or major Y declines, are you likely ... offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 739 applicants ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X ... date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  friends at state school succintly describes her school's dining hall food as ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... Simmons offer made-to-order stirfry, so you can "have it your way" without

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... and Private Universities,” by Shadowen and Tulante, 49 Santa Clara L ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009