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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We ... Portlet This portlet will display a thumbnail of a poster, which can be

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  . Religion suggests oneness of the universe. Why not do away with the word ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... students accept our offer on May 1, and also a great deal of uncertainty

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions ... click on "How to accept or decline our offer of admission", and complete ... , and do all kinds of outreach--traveling the country, visiting high

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  decline our offer of admission). Getting hungry, fruitlessly searching for ... over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this ... . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... can officially accept MIT's offer of admission (i.e. let us know they ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  exist somewhere outside of your own body. Identifying something universal ... very good—some of it comes from a lack of experience, but I also suspect ... ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... what I know a lot about is math. I almost wrote one of my MIT essays

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors ... institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... complete list of sessions, click here. You might be wondering, what happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... universe knows that something is up. Oh wait, something is: the letters are

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  Store ~> Columbia University Bookstore ~> University of Kansas ... college has books. Books come from one of three places: Internet, Library, or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  ; Theatre Building at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Camphor ... : October 6, 6:00pm; California State University Chancellor's Office, 401 ... handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005