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  get in: Welcome to MIT! Celebrate with your family and friends - and ... a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for ... 's going to be fine. You're all talented and creative; you might not be using

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... teammates about whatever I couldn’t figure out on my own. I started to get ... internship, or come back to school with valuable industry experience if I did

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  the one to burst your bubble, I really do. But PIRATE Shanties? Not real ... improvisation and getting our singing tone to match a sailors, and learned a ton ... buy almond milk for your sweetheart, or why pirates are depicted to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  place to meet your future classmates and get questions answered by current ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... your classmates have checked in to introduce themselves. Since only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  into them if you really want to. If you don't get your first choice HASS ... . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within ... your bed to be, although the highest you can get it is about 3.5 or 4

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  arms when he gets to campus! Interview with Hank We had some questions ... as a whole, etc)? I probably won’t get to see it, but I think someday ... intentionally or unintentionally enforce. I'm so excited for the 2025s to get to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice. As a ... your ideas? What would you like to see? ... be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any ... you get here, you register for your first term classes during ... students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  the white carpet, so we got to sink into the clean softness, get ... ’ll get to more thorough blogging, but for now, I must rush to write an ... immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  noise as it gets processed in your brain). It's pretty interesting and ... best case, you could get a UROP, publish papers, make your own ... , plus I get to shoot a real gun and go bouldering. As for whether I do

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... long as your tests have been taken and designated to be sent to MIT, we do not need to have your scores at MIT by January 1st. We will have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  re-sodding a Kresge of your very own.   Step 1: Get rid of all ... arbitrary white flags to indicate your surrender to the will of Sod. [caption ... once it gets to be grass-killin' szn again. [caption id

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me, what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  Building, so it’s nice to get out of standard lecture halls and TEAL ... , I’m taking Genetics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to Acting ... because you could always argue that you’re not done studying. Fortunately

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  is to know when to fold, when to cut your losses, and when to get out ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the ... classes, passing classes, to get A's, to get C's (P/NR FTW!), to be

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  is the time to get your my.mit.edu account and get started! Oh, and by ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... interesting for you and helpful to us. We understand that condensing your life

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  getting to campus. If you're arriving by air, you can take the airport ... ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your ... ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006