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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  Roger Ebert is my favorite film critic; I think he's got an honest ... : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  out online. 3. Bhangra dancing.  It’s everywhere at MIT… at CPW, in our ... first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  Beginning today (Saturday), MIT alumni from around the world (from ... classmates, as well as MIT students (home for Spring Break!) and alumni. These events mostly occur this week (MIT's Spring Break week), though some will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  that things have gone the way they have. The world is online for the time ... MIT is the place for you, I will give you the biggest non-virtual hug ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  admissions decisions via the web. We will release decisions at decisions.mit ... strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions.mit.edu as soon as possible to ensure that you know your MyMIT username and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  MyMIT is designed for you, so you should have a hand in its design. All ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online ... worry as you guys do. Getting into graduate school in biology is not, in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , the answer is no. MIT gives really remarkably, disappointingly horrible ... material. 2. It saves you money. MIT is expensive. You should use your ... , especially Bio and Chem, online at MIT Open Course Ware. While studying for the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  online, which is way expensive. I'd definitely check out the magazine at ... DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a ... this month. How sweet is that? Anything Into Oil By Brad Lemley

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  transfer students who aspire to enter MIT in 2021."]coming application cycle.[/annotation]  This was not a decision we made lightly. Our reliance on these tests is ... our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  . #2 - This is why I chose to go to MIT. (Well, one of the reasons.) #17 ... A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... , it's convenient - and at MIT, everyone checks it. They don't call this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... of MIT's best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So ... then the #8 seed was Dave Shin '05, who is apparently like a superhero or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  contact your interviewer is tomorrow (December 1). Check out my post from ... admissions folder. This is when we are happiest. The interviews are very ... (Educational Counselors, MIT alumni/ae who do the interviewing), we Waived your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  know, the one that is now on every site across the Internet. It's no secret that I don't like "Like." And that's because I think that it is ... 've run into a problem, and that is that Facebook broke the Share button

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... irreproachable Flour Bakery+Cafe by MIT. 36 of 42 hours were spent either staring ... . **The answers may be online somewhere, but I'll ask to see your work

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  happens every other year and is attended by admissions people from the 8 Ivy League schools, Stanford, and MIT. (Basically we share ideas and concerns ... question" (which I gather is fairly common on their tours): "yep, no doubt we

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  MyMIT on March 18. If you don’t have one yet, you can find out what documents are still required. There is also a link to the contact ... information. Some other things to look out for in your MY MIT Portal

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it ... rejected?" What we look for above all else is the match with MIT's mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  - is generally quite low. MIT's retention rate is very high, so few spots ... students applied; from this pool MIT admitted 16. Any student who is thinking ... would like to know whether the process of granting financial aid at MIT is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  project there, is that too trivial to be even considered at MIT? Would it ... what you learn is equivalent to MIT's multivariable calculus, and you ... . Good luck! Anon asked, "is resietering at MY MIT sufficient for an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005