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  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I ... of the world's technology research, with the world's brightest minds

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though, is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  " degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  is that there’s a pretty universal handful of questions that all ... terrifyingly untested (and, thus, unpopulated); little clusters of people ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  life and the universe instead of vector cross products and tumor ... Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Art offerings. Best viewed with a clover food truck sandwich in hand, of ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string. String? Looking up, I made my way past large equipment

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  Italy. Second of all, I was officially offered a job at Telefónica. If ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers ... [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015