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

  

  -stop-shop for all EA questions you may have, let's see if I can do this. What is ... have for applying early. Some people do it because MIT is their number ... their EA programs with no problems. Do I still have to pay the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... do your own thing. Yes, I know I just said your host is a wonderful ... ridiculous amount of freedom to do what you want, where you want, when you want

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  critical difference: to do the analysis, to create the innovations, to fuel ... Government/Resident Based Advising What will you do with a $10,000 budget? You ... many companies will be eager to hire. But how do you talk to companies at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  SAT scores not high enough? Did I not do enough activities? Was my essay ... doing the MIT application that I realized what was wrong in my Early ... applications that you might encounter is to just be yourself in whatever you do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  eating and never doing dishes, so the sink looks like that. Second of all ... , and how often do those two coincide? Seriously. Conner 2 has an ... of the pictures! Happy Holidays, everyone! What are you guys doing for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  around and frolic even when they have stuff they "ought" to be doing. (Case ... high school, because I could just do all my homework during study hall ... weeks before final exam week, so if you're not doing well that late in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  for me, this means that I have a ton of data analysis to do. Basically, what I have to do is take one of my neuron pictures, select five 30 ... the things you have to do in science are brain-liquefyingly, eye

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... MIT for grad school instead. Well, I have no regrets doing it this way ... opportunities out there for you. 4. And do I really want a PhD right now? Another

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... . Another thing -- if you plan to buy a lot of groceries, you can do one of ... saying people do it), buy a small shopping cart or share the purchase with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  Project Lab to do fluid mechanics research, which I had to go to 5 minutes ... .12 showed me that I really could do organic chemistry, if I just believed in ... you do it before entering your first semester, you just have to take an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  sphere. That was sad. =( On the plus side, I actually found the time to do ... on problem sets: Hey I do that too! Awesome! I am so encouraged to know ... do in the meantime, but at least I have an end plan. =) Shen wrote

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were ... , pens, and grades. Most everyone I know seems to be doing reasonably well

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  answering some of the following questions: 1. Do people swim faster in water ... nagging scientific questions above? Battle on, reader. 1. Do people swim ... , thus... doing something economical) has been recognized. The cool thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  for a MIT ID number. Do I have such , or how could I obtain MIT ID ... research in high school. I hope, though, that you're doing the research ... . Best thing to do is to visit both if you're admitted and experience both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  blog topics, though. As for your second question, we do consider ... applicant's control. For freshman applicants, we do expect that students are ... do? Will they get mad if I call about it? I don't know why I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  can do much more, particularly when working on hardware-focused teams ... wiring harnesses, assemble the boxes, and do full integration tests with ... emotional encouragement that I could do it. Transitioning from student to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... months, all I’d wanted to do was leave. Now, I had a chance to do so early ... wouldn’t be able to call what I was doing “moving out” anymore: instead, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  don’t throw up. If you keep doing that you’re going to throw up. Don ... , “Ana doesn’t throw up.” “Do you want to hear something cursed?” I asked ... because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  doing projects for my HASS classes, and twice a week I’d sit down to grind ... classes or projects. [carousel image1="70864" image2="70865" /] "Do I even ... Ruby do most of it.” It’s okay to struggle with something, my mom said

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  quantum and just spend time doing the math of it rather than just the "pop ... to do this even with my classes with asynchronous options, but there is ... past three” is one of them. today i was doing 20 squats with a friend and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020