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• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... did, but because of the behavior of admissions officers and parents. Admissions officials routinely boasted of the number of applicants with perfect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... the COVID-related disruptions, and we appreciate that too.  As of ... -minted members of the Class of 2025. These students hail from more than 500 high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the ... New York at 11:00 AM. Of course, the Fung Wah Bus Company hurriedly ... price that can't be beat. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Impose yourself on people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... unpleasantness to the situation. But of course I calmed down eventually, and I do realize the futility of this approach. So I started trying to think

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their ... , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... boxes. Each box contains a real number, and each of the advisors must open ... confidence of an improv artist pretending to be a surgeon. Turns out, the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... , though, Alex.) The admissions staff doesn't have some set list of priority ... cheating, etc.). You haven't changed yourself for the sake of getting into

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth ... Bridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first ... Bridge page to be sure that you’ve completed all of the MIT requirements. You
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] As some of you might already know, the MIT ... blend together and influence one another. First, there is the love plot of ... follows the activities of the Fairy Folk, whose leaders, Oberon and Titania

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of ... rest of your life"--is the condition of realizing how incomprehensibly ... , too massive to not have a plan. When I graduated, I grasped the edges of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  the Thalys website for "summer offers"--you could get fast connections ... a "Liège" waffle, with little bits of caramelized sugar on the outside of it. But wherever it's from, it was probably the best waffle in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... the sheer ugliness of the arrangement was that any time I sat at my desk

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is ... interviews Below are some of the past blog posts about interviews gathered in

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  without the constraints of pre-drawn lines to color inside of.  There are ... vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... of our noise. :) I played in the Assassins' Guild tenday game. My ... , as the same could not be said of 28 (out of 52 total) other characters

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007