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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  's incredibly hard to live on your away from home, especially with your friends ... define your budget and expected costs. You can't expect people to live with ... considering it. what i wish they told me You're going to have skirmishes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  somehow unable to deliver what’s expected, find whatever works to get your ... important to hold on to your dreams. Here’s my anectodal addendum: It was ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... . If your teachers want to use the Common App cover sheets, that's fine ... applying to MIT for Early Action, don’t worry. We’ll extend your Early Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Appetizer Prelude to an entry

  

  Real entry to come soon (within a week), this is just to get you ready/anxious. Click here

  • by Snively '11
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not ... deadline to remove from your transcript any class in which you were currently ... the one that gets sent to people"]internal transcript.[/annotation] In

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  an idea to bringing it to life are things I don't think I can ever get ... instructions will teach you how to make your very own acrylic signage from ... actually brainstorm all the logistics behind getting the sign up. So to do

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  's campus tournament! So have some fun, get closer to your dorm-mates and ... new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

   (or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your ... special, so who are you? You're a person who clings to it. You try even

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was ... all aren't just names and random comments, you're people who I wanted to ... 'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule ... need to have submitted your application Part 1 by the time you interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  with themselves. I intend no offense to your opponent, Aaron. The ... to quantum textbook (analytic solution to 1D time-independent ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is not fun. Don't even start with your "wah wah wah I have to get up at 5 ... they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... people when we read their applications. We imagine them coming to MIT, finding their niche, doing wonderful things - sometimes we even start to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing ... to get some serious work done. No YouTube, no Grooveshark, and, most ... , and I should be fully prepared once I finish this post and get back to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  your MIT education taking you? What opportunities have been available to you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP ... 'll travel 13.7 billion years back to explore the Big Bang itself and how state ... opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006