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• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  testers: Good luck next week! For students on the waitlist: As I mentioned a ... deadline for making your college decision. If your lingering issue is a ... For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  This year, we received 12,443 applications for freshman admission, a record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533 ... 499 students a place on the waiting list. Decisions (and, for admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  person for dinner. Last semester, when we received a similar email, my ... The 2006 Class Council is responsible for planning and executing many ... advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework ... after graduation, as the festivities settled down, I began my hunt for a ... of an interview for a prestigious internship with a law firm, I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  are also a good chance for you to learn more about MIT from someone who ... these conversations are a way for you and for us to learn about each other ... those interests, and think about why MIT would be a good place for you

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of ... for grad school is having a harder time transitioning from an undergrad ... India, figured out how to do a stopover on the way for a friend’s recital

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes ... words and one medium, for example, paper, a computer, a video camera, or ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At ... fraternity would not be a good fit for me.) Anyway, with all the fraternities ... google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  usually goes on for a while. this is my first time playing in the hall tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn ... for 5:30, when dining opens. a '22 two days ago at the rules meeting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of ... work for a month with an MIT alumnus at a company that matches their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring ... to create a rendition of TIM the Beaver for our signature class event, Twenty Fourmal. It seemed like a fun side thing for me to do and also a way

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  Works (again, MIT provides it for free). You'll need a Pro though, of the three ... , there are a few that I'd like to suggest you focus on for certain ... with a pen? I would TOTALLY have a tablet if not for one thing: Graphics

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  a turn, and dipped inside the nearest store to ask the owner for ... hadn’t exercised that part of my brain outside of MIT’s campus for a ... the machine.    And then. I was asking a friend at EC for pset

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  adults. The rules were simple: Modify a Big Wheel for racing using all of ... , and then of course it was time for a team picture with the "Stealth ... actually racing. I snagged a video of the action for you. Oh, and remember

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  Concentration, that's a valid combination of HASS classes for graduation! Note ... a week for one hour. Utilizes creative scenarios that places a heavy ... jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I ... . This weekend is particularly splendid for a couple of reasons. First of ... Annual MIT-Wellesley Toons Concert for a Cure, a benefit concert for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  do I want with a fourth one? (For the curious: my first job, as I ... a booth for Pixar there. I’ve always known Pixar as a fantastic ... detergent 3 rubber ducks More candy than a mildly aggressive trick

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you ... daylightBut then you wake up for the sunriseYou know you don't gotta pretend, baby, now and then Don't you just wanna wake up, dark as a lake

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  ; 11:00 AM: J: Found a phone booth to have my staff meeting for the class I'm TAing (working as a teaching assistant) for (6.8300 - Advances ... .9000 (Engineering for Impact)! T: 4.032 ended a little early, so I had time to grab

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026