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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely ... especially helpful at the end of the weekend. How to get into their room ... to offer (and stuff your face with free food!). Join a fun group of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  the blogs too!). IMAGE #3: One of my favorite things about the new ... So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  all the benfits of a major university. ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  music video was released at the same time I had the beginning of my career ... least i'm not as sad as i used to be. This is the second mention of At ... at all, but it was definitely the song I was thinking of while I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  majoring in Biology, began working in the Langer Lab at MIT in November of ... integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  job, not a social statement. Among my friends at MIT, announcements of ... —that is theoretically easy to learn. But at the end of the day, I’m less ... “like me” at the lower rungs of a large bank: Learn to swallow your pride

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15 ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of ... . unironically, one of the most important lessons out of my time at MIT is to just ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself   ... one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ... of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... Probably the most popular questions asked at any information session ... quick summary of what you'll find... Freshman Applications 12,445 Freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  , each charged with making a new product on a budget of $6500 and a 3-month ... running. I began screaming. At first, it might have been a scream of joy ... with several considerations in mind. His dimensions fit those of a new

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  such as MIT's Paul Samuelson, the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman ... On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside the student center. now i am looking at the lists of names. i download ... lives. one of the students at my table said: "i'm scared, but i have to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Mr. Dogoe to reach out to a faculty member at the University of Ghana ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... community at MIT, serving as Vice President of the African Students

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  don't write travel brochures.) After a brief eternity of staring at ... McDonald's where a group of high schoolers laughed at me and my intro ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010