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• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  of you have commented that "most other schools do it this way." I don ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  believe that neither school is better...necessarily. Of course I have MIT ... the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at ... about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  time of my life in college (at a school that was ranked -YIKES- only #20 ... am. All that without going to one of "the top ten schools in the world ... Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , and a bunch of other people (mentioned below) put too much work into it ... ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here ... through a bunch of ideas, like a Buzzfeed/Tasty-style video of a pie recipe

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  from graduating seniors at my high school that the social aspect of ... high school was small with a graduating class of twenty-four students, so ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  of my male friends have grown beards since I came back from school ... combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  my plans are. It’s a fascinating revelation. Senior year of high school ... of high school. College forced me to take care of myself when I fucked ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

   inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and ... , a cloud-like form made entirely of crochet and developed by the ... "the future of water:" how can we conserve it? How can we ensure

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb ... dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... school buses? Maybe they go for an after-work drink at the Asgard? Maybe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of downtime before school and college application season begins. I don’t know

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  My oldest son graduated from high school this past weekend and we ... made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break ... pretty photoshoots on her Instagram and did a lot of work for rocket team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with ... of us that I want to solve before we launch in September

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly. What new stuff should I ... were planning to do so during EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017