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Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.
Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on their MyMIT portal today, including: Class of 2010 Guestbook. Sign in, learn about your classmates, find out who else is from your area and who -
Blog / Admissions
Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…
Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math -
Blog / Admissions
11,231 Applications
Today's issue of MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, accurately reported that we have received a record high 11,231 applications this year (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection -
Blog / Admissions
Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.
The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total -
Blog / Admissions
Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.
Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the -
Blog / MISTI
Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.
apparently, every hour today, MISTI which stands for MIT International Science -
Blog / Admissions
Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.
Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend's wedding, but while you're over there, you might as well do some tourism, no -
Blog / Life after MIT
Good Luck Jo-Jo!
There's a story from the MIT News Office today about my friend Joanne (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving -
Blog / Admissions
Cacti and Ice Cream
Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis Today, I -
Blog / Admissions
The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…
share your disappointment today. I wish I had brighter words to share, but -
Blog / Admissions
New stuff on MyMIT, and more
that financial aid letters will be mailed today to those students who -
Blog / Admissions
Quick update
I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs. Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection -
Blog / Academics & Research
Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…
the general biology major of yesteryear with today's, for example. Now -
Blog / Athletics
IM sports totally rock
giddiness and gushing, but today, even more than usual, I am proud of MIT. Yes -
Blog / Admissions
Selection-time Questions Omnibus
earliest day i can fax a copy is the day they are released. Will they still ... 've actually taken the AMC 12 (just a couple days ago), I've realized my mistake ... the lassi-day tie in my previous entry below; that brings the count to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few
million test subjects, ~32,000 of them (or about 0.22% of them) are enough ... a majority decision). Now, when K=2, we have 22 = 4 out of 32 = 9 test -
Blog / MIT Life
growing over time continuing to become myself
Sometimes I worry I have too many blog posts that are just paragraphs of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel like my thoughts can be… -
Blog / Academics & Research
creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap
this blog the week of December 22nd, 2020, and it has taken me all this -
Blog / MIT Life
on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious
Last semester was pretty rough, and I vowed to make this semester different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn’t (it was too oversubscribed), so instead I’m…