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  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  few months ago.  Which, as my friend Isaac quipped, is totally MIT ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... , in terms of actual MIT students, campus is quite empty. Of course, this ... around outside, reading, what have you. Once MIT started I began life on

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Toby is like, “BF3 girl.”... And that is one of the most MIT stories ever ... 2016 through a partnership with the MIT - Italy program of Dr. Serenella ... ’Agata Bolognese a first MIT graduate-- Patricia Das, Mechanicals Engineering, Class

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  application (which is available online) from MIT. You don't apply to a specific ... asked, "Now that the Interview Information is posted on the MyMit website ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  “MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates.” This phrase is no ... interdisciplinary problem-solving, MIT is uniquely equipped, and obliged, to make a ... Leadership Development is an online search engine for various leadership

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  simmons, even if i'm living here. it's not baker. is it "mit", as a concept ... one Living alone is easy It's keeping someone that's impossible in ... nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine months. this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  of MIT if the rest of your application is stellar ... , rock band, drama and some basketball. the problem is, does MIT look at ... legacy preference at MIT. If you are admitted, it is because you are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  otherwise, they couldn't afford it. MIT is extremely expensive in America ... students who have asked me about whether this post is still totally accurate. The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt that I think all I'll be able to manage is an entertaining ... published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... series of words or pictures. This is the kind of conversation you might

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what ... bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... , classes are settling into a rhythm, the pumpkin takeover is underway, and I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  . Monday XFair On the day before spring-semester classes began, MIT held a ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D ... class registration at MIT goes like this: student spends December

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  .wolf gang reads UG applications...Mit is cool!!!! can you name a few more from ... , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI ... of these programs is less than the overall MIT undergraduate admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  MIT MUN delegation gets from students from other MUN teams is, "Aren ... is easy. Generally, you just sign on to the MIT MUN mailing list, and ... declare sophomore standing. So what is "sophomore standing" at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student-illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  emotionally is that every MIT admissions decision is not entirely about you. It ... and your fit for MIT and your everything else. But it is, in some ... MIT is the right place for you. And what changed was the kinds of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  . Please note that there is no online recommendation system for MIT ... is helpful! [Please note: with this entry, I speak for MIT Admissions ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... (one of the very last two from Walmart online, the other of which went to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  is much closer to us now that we live closer to Harvard than to MIT ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  not hold true at other schools. As far as I know, while the MIT MEng is ... This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT, the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  online video lectures witnessed my tourist-esque behavior.) Coming to MIT ... this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal ... prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009