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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  :26pm. Admissions decisions are available exclusively online. We do not ... on to do terrific things for the world. We will have more news about

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research, travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... delete an item in your Public that you do not want there anymore and you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... 11, 2006 - What AM I doing at MIT? September 25, 2006- On the HASS

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2 ... . Eh, decent, but I knew I could do better, so after some misadventures

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  Tracking. Please note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your ... Reports do not need to be submitted by January 3; they should be submitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  's what everybody else was doing. "I'm doing it!" I thought, "I'm doing MIT ... was wrong. Well, not about doing ok, because MIT hasn't completely ... productive. 12 hours is a surprisingly useful chunk of time. NEVER do it, it

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  friend Ternus '10 comments, "Insidiously distracting things you can do include doing your laundry, cleaning and reorganizing your room, etc. This

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  was unable to do a halfway decent cartwheel under normal conditions and therefore doing one in a full length vinyl jacket while shooting a Nerf gun

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  do and how we live. Here's the way I write. I write about the stuff admissions will never tell you. I do this because this is why I feel the blogs ... . You should do A LOT of research before deciding to attend any school

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... , incidentally, is actually exactly what you should do. This is because school is ... are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  if you do have a spelling error? It's certainly not fatal, but it ... students who talk about taking "discreet math." Is this math that you do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  well as you think you know yourself and what you enjoy doing, the college ... colleges, especially if you're doing it right. If you're cranking out ... about what truly matters in your life, what aspects do you feel are more

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  ’re doing something wrong.” The man couldn’t be more ... so much to do. Suddenly I’ve got this kaleidoscope of crazy activities to do, and the freedom to do (or not do) whatever I wanted. There

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  's somewhere else, then it's good as well. However, I do hope to do what I can in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH ... middle of my Thursday doing random stuff for CPW and then I UROP from 2

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  , we will consider all of your new scores. MidYear Grades: We do not ... . We *do* want your first semester (or trimester) grades as soon as they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right thing to do ... besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising future you ... )? Let me ask you something else: if you had an entire year to do anything

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  place that I love. Make sure that you remember that all you can do is know ... of weather ever, or go do something that you know will make you happy

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  can do, so try to have some fun in these next few weeks. Hang in there and try not to stress - there's nothing left to do but wait, and if all

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007