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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le

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

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  such as MIT's Paul Samuelson, the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  , sometimes Tufts or Boston University). Sometimes, these alums will band

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  all the benfits of a major university.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings ... by offering more course options online. For example, 8.S05 (Special Offering of Quantum Mechanics II), usually a fall course, can now also be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  , he was admitted to MIT. In response to the admission offer, he took MIT's offer to do a gap year(s) to focus on his racing career, looking to return ... Larkspur a semester early and was offered a full academic scholarship to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• 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 ... colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another college ... waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the first college

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

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... with a strong humanities program that offers appropriate context, you

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

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 454 applicants ... offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means ... begin admitting students from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my ... be offered a place at another great school. Waitlisted: In some ways ... of choices, first accepting an offer of admission elsewhere — which all

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  -renowned scientific training that MIT offers. Yes, we do get stressed out at times, but ... the morning, but we love MIT for all the possibilities it offers ... offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 739 applicants ... date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the

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

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer ... Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I ... whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... 'll recall that we extended an offer to Evan last year but made him wait until Sam and Mitra had graduated - we've extended the same offer to Snively

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  waitlist? We offered 499 applicants -- approximately 4% of applicants -- a ... reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the first college and enroll at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... classes are offered exactly the same as the regular material learned in ... biology professor's Kitchen Chemistry seminar offers baked goods every other

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007