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  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  , Seattle, Portland (OR), San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the East Bay (CA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  schools offer more limited coursework, or the students are not tracked in ... university, or just got into MIT for grad school, or did whatever it is that ... of these well funded research universities. You have the GI Bill, you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one and part ... reparations and systemic injustice in the United States. I found it hard to ... ’ll be in San Francisco for one full day before I fly back to Boston. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  ,927 Admitted regular action (including deferred students) 898 Offered a place ... ; Ethnicity US Citizens & Permanent Residents Number of US states ... ; Plains States 10% Southwest & Mountain 10% West Coast, Alaska, &

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  February, I interviewed for a microscopy company and was offered an ... State Department travel warning was at level 3, the prospect of travel ... . also, the first week was slated to be virtual. I'd leave the States on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC ... committee gives an overview of the program. Recruits go on San Francisco tours ... restaurant. Saturday, Mar 4. There are San Francisco tours and activities all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  remaining requirement for my physics degree (aside from my thesis): 8.07 or 8 ... , intermittency, and quasiperiodicity. Scaling and universality. Analysis of ... permission to go ahead with 8.351 for my physics degree restricted electives (8

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... 'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... E class I need for my degree, and I'm doing a lot better this term. I'm too

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  college. You can find this event, along with all our upcoming offerings, at ... -hosted STARS’ inaugural Northeast Counselor Conference along with Yale University, Brown University, Colby College, and Columbia University in the City of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... other. Students do not apply directly to the university, but rather to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... and Private Universities,” by Shadowen and Tulante, 49 Santa Clara L ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ? As Purple Team explained, a 3.5 degrees celsius rise in temperature of ... concept, as Luke explains that universities like MIT, Stanford and Carnegie ... the United States receive a high influx of super-busy customers. Having

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence ... offer insights to improve the social, cultural, and political impact of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 722 applicants ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X ... colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 454 applicants ... ? For example, if someone from state X or major Y declines, are you likely ... offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009