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  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we ... things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list “closed” and will not be admitting any additional students for the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing. But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... didn't want to be the guy who inquired about GPAs, or put my resume or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation, Livestreamed cant talk gotta walk

  

  connection is poor will try again when we start the procession chris edit: working on embedding the official stream, which does not have an official

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  As the committee meets for the final week of the Early Action cycle, I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up-the ... Guitar Sidekick), you feel the slow, grinding rotation of the earth tugging

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  entire week free from classes! Back in high school spring break was in the middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges ... they start the spring semester weeks before we do because we have IAP. So

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... importance (biking for fun, blogging, sleep) but hey, saving the world involves ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  things. My failings at life from the last couple of weeks include tripping ... myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice ... across the Longfellow Bridge with Jesse '09 (who says he didn't notice, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  all night, it is this disgruntled bull. Although the 22 other students in the cluster with me may have some idea as well. ...On an almost completely unrelated note, I recently learned a great mnemonic for the stock

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the other that's just happenstance. The first reason you're seeing fewer ... less broken by MIT. It's like the difference between a tasty avocado* and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did the past few years: Applicants: nearly 300 Admits: high teens Admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this year, the bloggers are inviting YOU to join us as guest bloggers. This ... 'll experience the MIT lifestyle firsthand. There will be too many things to do at

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  off the front page, and the only thing I hate more than getting pushed off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  actually enjoyed doing it, despite the very obvious fact that I spent all ... baguettes. Usually when there's food at desk, it's free for the taking, but I ... email was sent to the Senior House mailing list. It said "please help

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I ... .) (Thanks to Christina for finding the picture for me.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  before our gathered family and friends, and celebrate our union. The ... couple, as we explore romantic Italy. As I've been preparing for the big ... 's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... -conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that rather than reading all the entries at smashbros.com some for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  's start over. The other day this fabulous idea for a blog entry came from a piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of sparkley sparkles flying through the sky, bearing the words "BLOG IDEA HORSE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007