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  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  -time questions. There are many answers already here on the site -- for example ... weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not ... center, and expect to have that backlog into January. Do not send a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Becca H. '12 Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch by Rachel F. '12 Do I have a ... doing so. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. These blog posts do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  site -- for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics ... recognize that processing can take 2 weeks. You do not need to worry at this ... backlog into January. Do not send a second copy of any document at this time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you to do otherwise. So, while you're here, I figure that I might as well ... SITE AND GO DO SOMETHING FUN. Love, Anna

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  ; you can find our site here spend dozens of hours reading through code ... lectures you do a lot less anxiety-prep and those go well too spend a lot of ... websites and grading them. a lot of the sites are quite polished and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in ... . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it ... “You haven’t even started doing psets yet, just you wait.” and “Why are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... highways, rolling through well-to-do neighborhoods, tunnels coated in bold ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  . And I do mean very warm. My bike has been sitting out with one handlebar ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... more easily than do those for whom the experience is entirely foreign. If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a ... institutions asked to make sure we are happy and doing well. Even if you don't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  test scores, when do the scores need to be received by MIT? I just ... that takes 2 days (at $26..). Do I need to get the official score reports ... SAT scores to the school for early action applicants?" You do not need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... /ACT are discouraged from doing so if they cannot do so safely, and/or are ... their actual preparation. students who do not submit SAT/ACT scores will

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog ... more easily than do those for whom the experience is entirely foreign

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  will be the single most important part of your application.While you do ... have a preference for folks who do have active blogs. 

If you do ... writings/videos. 

If you do have a current blog, please send a link to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... -stop-shop for all EA questions you may have, let's see if I can do this. What is "Early Action"? According to this admissions site: If you have taken all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  there are resources out there that cover that. The UROP site has a page ... you’re looking for. You don’t have to be “good enough” to do a UROP ... , but they do exist. Besides, it doesn't hurt to reach out to a lab that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  passing it since I'd gone through the 18.02 OCW site many times during ... everything else I have to do for technical classes. Fortunately, the professor ... myself, "Do I really need to go to lecture?" That answer happened to be no

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  it a second thought, because it's just not something I imagined doing ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do ... courses on site at Jeju National University. Over the month of January, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem ... could not bring myself to do anything that would require thought over

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , but also because of what I was doing. I worked in the Laboratory of the ... sites, I was able to delve into the calm yet amicable French way of life ... , there was so much to do and learn this summer that I guess the best I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  't seen her blog since I got hooked to the MIT site - four months ago. Is ... application proce[ss]. I hope you can help me. What do I do with the teacher ... ju[s]t need to know what'[s] the right way to do it, and [s]hould I [s

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006