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  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm ... finds unfamiliar paths in familiar places to meet new friendly faces. (Hey ... hope that you continue sharing your story to the world, and we are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or ... unable to complete your application by our deadlines. In the interim ... delays caused by major disruptions outside of your control. We try to be
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  's like impossible to think of some clever 4 word phrase to encapsulate your ... !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting on one of the New Year's party hats that were decorated by the 6-year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... without getting flustered, coming to grips with MIT's nerdvanic mutation of the english language, and generally trying to get over the shock that I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  Bayer in Leverkusen and get back by around 2 AM at the latest. After all, it had only taken us 4 hours for Ling and I to get to Bao's apartment ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  Happy Memory, get your good spirit and energy back, take a deep breath ... , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends ... entry coming soon!) counselor - I've had a chance to spend a little more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... :00-8:00 PM: Build Your Own Loudspeakers- a class offered by the Hobby Shop ... publication! - Writing a module for the soon-to-be-launched OpenLabWare website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where ... do enter it please be sure to be clear about the bass so as not to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  victim). Happy pi day! Brought to you by your social chairs + eva + anna ... . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... break and attempt to recover being blasted away by six midterms and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects ... . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to ... your knowledge of the school be limited to what admissions wanted to tell

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report serves two purposes: to get your updated grades since you ... be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still ... felt motivated by Mocha, and since I felt like I'd lost a lot of time to ... either disbanded due to COVID or weren't accepting new members. considering

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to ... assured to advance if they defeat Togo by more than two goals, and how ... in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  , and then go home and have dinner afterwards. I also elected to get paid for this UROP by the UROP office (as opposed to receiving credit), so ... Love At Work (LAW) missions camp. The camp, founded in 1993 by Killearn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living ... NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS DURING YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. I'm sorry, I ... NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS DURING YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. Whooo.. now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a ... lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting ... website that professors and TAs can use to post materials for their classes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• 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…

  

  no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... 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

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

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot by Chris Peterson SM ‘13 ... ’t ever achieve your dreams. But I’d like to tell you this: eventually, you will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017