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  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  Early Action updates Please continue to be patient with the ... recommendation on the application tracking system. Allow two weeks from submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... all of the freshmen here. Aw, why isn't anybody else excited? It's not ... 't easy, by any means, but the difficulty seems to come from the fact that

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying ... charge an application fee anyway? Between staff time and materials, the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  If you are a senior, you know that you are playing for all the ... and care with the application process. You also know that this process ... ...? (Hint: see the title.) Aren't you fortunate that I'm here to help you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... !) Ames Research Center is the one with the funny hangar- it's our north

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  in the appropriate bubble? There is no deposit required?" No deposit required! Just be sure to return the MIT Reply Form by May 1st. ------------------------------------- The schedule looks fantastic - for the kids. There don't seem to be many

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the ... the extraordinary holiday dinner party for Course 17: Political Science ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS ... tantalize you with tales of my free food, but also tell you about the fine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  have classes in the morning and afternoons, often with breaks over 2 ... the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... understand." I'd give this pset a 2 out of 5 on the "assume the fetal position

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... phrases into my blog, I'll learn the language. Immersion, right?) My most recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  Buzz. 8. Roommate hits you before you can hit the snooze button. Maybe ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the class without telling you more about the class would be a travesty, so

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school ... chocolate cake.) Burning questions: 1. I floated the idea that there might be a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Lovable Rick Santorum, the junior US senator from Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he ever stays at the MIT chapter when he's in Boston? Probably not... he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how ... was spelled correctly. It's the new spell checker! Haha. So funny story ... is the first hit for that (as you correctly point out) incorrect

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... 'm so and so and I read and comment on your blog all the time," I want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each ... the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... the lack of meaningful updates recently; my life has been tremendously busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  's Club" on hall, which included guests dressing up. The only problem was ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... t-shirt or turtleneck and didn't come from the Army Barracks store on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005