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What is need-blind admissions?
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Blog / About Decisions
All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait
letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors -
Blog / Admissions
last minute application panic for the procrastinators
, please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon ... deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other -
Blog / Academics & Research
The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet
It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... guaranteed admission, then be one of first to solve this year's HackMIT puzzle -
Blog / MIT Life
A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill
Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the -
Blog / Admissions
Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...
admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would -
Blog / About Decisions
The waiting is the hardest part
I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in -
Blog / MIT Life
on being seen ...and why that might be important
I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time. However, as I -
Blog / Events
APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades
of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... the event, providing each floor of the dorm with staple ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and, of course, apples. This -
Blog / Challenges
what’s the word for
span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... friend that you’ve just met understanding only half of what someone just ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for -
Blog / Academics & Research
Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.
I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... 50 (Grape) Vitamin Water. (jk, though I have four empty bottles of it -
Blog / About Decisions
Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.
be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... that you tried your best and that is all you should expect of yourself ... based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Holmstrom, et al.
(UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... the organization of firms, inspired by his work straight out of -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…
Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... important in this world. And for all this passionate pursuit of excellence -
Blog / Events
Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.
Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes -
Blog / Admissions
About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.
should be completed as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a ... us directly - we will verify the accuracy of the information you submit -
Blog / MIT Life
Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!
Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you
Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of -
Blog / How to Food
Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures
to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But ... are not particularly aesthetic or instagramable, since we've been out of ... way (we are probably a minority of people who most of the time don