<p>First Post!!! :D I'm already sooo excited to go to MIT!! Let senioritis begin! (Nevermind Marilee Jones's warning :p) :D</p>
<p>Congrats everyone! Before I know it you'll be here taking our spot as froshies :D</p>
<p>Yes! I was waiting for this forum to come up! WOO HOO!!! I even changed my Facebook profile pic to one of me wearing an MIT shirt. Excitement does not even <em>begin</em> to describe it!</p>
<p>congrats everyone!</p>
<p>i'm really excited too!!! i'm just a little worried about financial aid. what are you guys doing to keep the cost down?</p>
<p>i read that our class is perhaps the most competitive in the history of the institute. class of 2011 all the way!</p>
<p>Hey, guys. I have a question regarding the MIT shirts. do admitted students get discount on them? lol, they r really kind rip off.</p>
<p>ps. I think financial-aid will be fine, since im poor.</p>
<p>You should get a 10% discount coupon good through the end of May with your acceptance envelope. Co-op members end up with about a 7% rebate at the end of the year. Special events like CPW and Parent weekend usually have a 20% off sale. Not much else in the way of discounts.</p>
<p>Congrats! Hope to join you all in March!</p>
<p>Hi everyone! Congrats!
Yeah, I'm also a bit worried about the financial aid especially the loans.
Anyway, hope to see you guys in September! Won't be able to make it for CPW.</p>
<p>This is where I tell all of you (who are sure about attending) to MAKE SURE YOU GET ALL YOUR FINANCIAL AID FORMS IN ON TIME.</p>
<p>K?</p>
<p>K.</p>
<p>Yay for never qualifying for financial aid in a million years... fastwebs.com, here I come! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>You'd be surprised. :). Never hurts to apply!</p>
<p>Man~ so jealous :S
Well, I'm applying Regular, I wish I get in!!! It's my dream school.</p>
<p>Ah, the memories. Seems like I was here just yesterday. If any of you all have questions, ask! :D</p>
<p>What kind of bike do you recommend? Does the cold do anything to the bikes? Is there a theft problem? etc</p>
<p>There has indeed been a theft problem... whatever kind of bike you get, get a GOOD LOCK.</p>
<p>My advice is to get a cheap bike. You won't need one with lots of bells and whistles anyway.</p>
<p>My dorm had a bike storage room inside, so the winter wasn't much of a problem. I'm not sure how many of the dorms have storage rooms.</p>
<p>What's the stereotype for each dorm, more specific that the "hippie East Campus" vs. "normal West Campus" ones? Although I know that the culture of each dorm varies significantly, what is the general culture?</p>
<p>You'll hear tons and tons about this subject as the summer approaches. Search the main MIT forum for past threads to get some ideas, but be prepared for lots of opinion. (Also go through the past Admissions blog entries related to Residential life [url=<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/residential_life_housing_options/completearchive.shtml%5Dhere%5B/url">www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/residential_life_housing_options/completearchive.shtml]here[/url</a>]. They go back through May of '05 so you'll read a variety of thoughts on the subject.)</p>
<p>If you matriculate you'll get the i3 DVD over the summer (i3 = Interactive Intro to the Institute, I think) with videos from each dorm that give you some idea what the residential culture in each is like -- some of those are available online if you poke around a bit. You really do need to go to CPW and explore, and then explore again during Dorm Rush (if that's what it's being called these days) to really figure out where you feel most comfy, regardless of what the stereotypes tell you.</p>