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  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in Urban Studies & Planning, Architecture, Economics, and more. Of course ... all of your options. Most freshman in their first term take a math class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  for one thing: he mentioned MIT as one of the schools that practices ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  got after our interviews for Art Scholars 14) The business card of ... -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... apocalyptic event either of us had ever experienced. I knew the auction was ... any of those editors. They took my manuscript to acquisitions meetings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly pretty busy right?” Poor me. I had NO IDEA. Let’s run this through. I ... . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  I was busy composing an email to the head instructor of Junior Lab ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... tournament in four years. "A lot of people don't know it, but they offer more ... 's not likely, he'll have the support of his father, a high-school pitching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  to hear as high school seniors. So, here is a part 2 post, kind of ... drop it after 3 weeks because of The Job Hunt and Grad School Apps. We ... in a field from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences or

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your ... what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from the Association of Student Activities (ASA).
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  of (checks watch) right now, we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  looking pretty busy (but in a very good way). Here's a preview of just some ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT ... community through his annual MIT Arts Party: ABOVE: Carla Sehbani (Office of

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at this school, which warms my heart and makes me think of the good-times I had in my school-home. My team also has a lot of people who did not go

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  pop-up book portfolio that talked about all of my high school science ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school ... decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  cheer for good measure. After busy days of checking people in, giving ... since sophomore year of high school. All voluntary, all just experimenting ... Because my summer plans are about as fluid as one of those squishy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  ! Reason #6: School cafeterias now offer a variety of hay options to ... . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... topic for the rest of this post and the points listed underneath are all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... sitting ahead of me. First order of business: back to bed. ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008