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• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  School 7% Home School 1% Number of different high schools represented ... AP currciulum, who did the IB curriculum, whose schools had no advanced ... number #1 overall winner of international Olympiad competitions, and many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now it's Thanksgiving break. Next week will be absurdly busy, and I am not ... school visited me. I boarded a plane to New York, spent a day interviewing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  [intro]We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of ... .[/annotation] We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are ... watched a decent amount of Toonami in middle and high school. But, that was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure ... temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  bunch of time mentoring middle school kids in Robotics, and yeah, maybe ... we've left. Another example. One of my best friends in High School ... heap somewhere. A final example. In High School, I (and all of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  last two days have been nothing short of gorgeous (it's SEVENTY ... to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you ... frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an email from BC Desk (that isn't this one) notifying you of a package

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  during a busy week, I don't end up hanging out with much of anyone except ... In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  context of your specific school system ... students to get in without AP classes etc. My school does not offer AP ... your school does not offer AP classes, you won't be penalized for not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... , which has a beautiful music video. i'm not a fan of psychological horror ... friends highly recommend it. of a different taste is existential dread, like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than one of every ten applicants. Because of the size and the strength of ... were simply unable to offer admission to. All applicants should know that

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  in my senior year of high school, and how I’d finally carved a place ... known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  specific numbers more balanced. In a typical school week, almost all of my ... part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best ... /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  interdisciplinary understanding of business. Concepts from finance and economics (e ... alternative investments) place accounting in the context of the business ... Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... employer for the same job since my first year of high school, does it affect ... specifics of academic potential are part of of match

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  going to schools named after sketchy billionaires i.e. basically all of ... . Next came the weird business of figuring out how many stamps to put on ... school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  losing battle anyway.  It's a busy summer, but I've been having a lot of ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021