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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1548 students. However, it isn't ... . Please don't try to draw a trend line from 3 points - it's ... other application doesn't impact your application. Who do you admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  's "Ancient Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium" talk: f I didn't have the ... history is, after all, full of people who could not write; we can't read ... site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  ;         I don’t personally know Hendrik, but I do know Brandon. Brandon ... day and you know you won’t get any homework done when he’s around ... probably some other stuff that I can't remember.) Oh wow. For the costumes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  him that it made me feel like running. He simply told me “Don’t waste inspiration.” I reminded him that it is 2 a.m. He said “so what; don’t waste ... buddies, but they couldn't shake my excuses; I just claimed I didn't have

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  tl;dr: CPW is awesome. Meet EVERYBODY. Don't you dare be shy. If you ... live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would ... . I brought my homework. Don’t bring your homework. If you're doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... stretch where we didn't take anyone from the waitlist. So, it's hard ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  realization that you can’t do everything some time during the first four terms ... don’t get anything out of taking five classes if you don’t do well ... because you want to find the answer; you don’t want it given to you. We have

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  preset furniture, dorm rules, and maybe even a giant curved wall that doesn’t ... wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and ... you don’t feel like dealing with paint fumes or chalk dust is to

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Okay, so this wasn't actually our first order of business, but I ... to take place.  We couldn't wait to see our code in space. The day ... the high school level), I can't actually tell you many details abut the

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  should not be confused with Rs (can't do subscripts, sorry), which refers ... their songs aren't summery enough to make the list. When PB's latest album ... colossal crap out of Mumford and Sons, don't even get me started. 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our ... it even better. But this is MIT. We wouldn't be who we are if we were ... exceed the marginal benefit of their inclusion. However, we didn't want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  . Normally I would say that sounds like a really bad idea, but it hasn’t turned ... I don’t fully comprehend. For me, IAP meant that I was rowing, working ... those who don’t know, Birthright is a Jewish-Israeli program that sponsors

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  mean we don't really have one. You, your parents, or someone else will ... , MIT doesn't like subsidizing food. So, over the past year or two a ... those changes aren't what are making students unhappy. Instead, it's the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  , at that point, it wasn't really my decision, and there were a lot of ... I came to MIT. I didn't expect to be playing as much music here as I ... : I don't think I can single out one specific experience. I would say

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  gloomy day.. the rain wouldn't let up but we still managed to have a lot of ... them. I couldn't help but think that I was surrounded by the people who ... won't be posting the hilarious pictures (pssst..! check out my CPW album

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... stereograms (didn't work), an autostereogram (too overwhelming visually), and ... . I know that I'm not supposed to be doing this, but it couldn't hurt to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  family’s better parties. You can do these sorts of things when you don’t ... hadn't seen in 4 months since she abandoned us and went to study abroad ... class at 6. Don't laugh- I need 4 more PE credits (which translates to 2

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in ... Claus, Miley Cirus......, it really doesn't matter who is writing out the ... they used their creativity. If the situation I describe doesn't relate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  .  I have also been involved in other activities that I haven't listed ... !, you can't buzz until Alex Trebek is done reading or you get locked out ... bad. Not because Jean isn't awesome (she is!) but because one of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  don't know if you guys remember when you first learned Calculus. For me ... differentiation that you had to learn, and there were so many things that didn't make sense to my young and undisciplined mind. I don't know if it was the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009