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Blog / MIT Life
The summer begins…
and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels ... this weekend to explore some of Europe by rail, and I promise to post -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist
I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!
I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to post about this week. That will change next week when I post pictures ... - it's an awesome collection of clarifications & advice for first -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Hosts
good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few ... the available hosts, and ultimately we were happy with all of the -
Blog / Admissions
March Questions Omnibus 2
get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file -
Blog / Miscellaneous
And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.
catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications ... been answered at the end of it.) -
Blog / Admissions
Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…
't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the -
Blog / Admissions
Selection Day 2
With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... summaries of your applications, and now we take those summaries and work from them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I -
Blog / Admissions
Selection
Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I -
Blog / Admissions
Visualize whirled peas
I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film -
FAQ / First-year application
How much is the application fee?
one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... negative impact on your chances of admission. -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there a medical facility on campus?
MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical -
FAQ / Life and culture
How did the blogs get started?
Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have -
FAQ / First-year application
When are decisions announced?
of decisions. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of -
Blog / Events
This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)
🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very -
Blog / Residential Life
[guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017
in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
, or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique