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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year ... openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and ... have trouble with those last two).  You're spending $55K a year to be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  know how to do everything in your current position, but that your new ... estimate. I sent those 28 shirts off to a nice Etsy store that turns your old ... , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  endless of what you're gonna get. I think that's why Tuesday hit me like a ... -minute I'm debating how I'll get everything done and what I'll do next to ... now to get everything done on time, or I will not follow the schedule

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  were at the eleventh hour trying to get this approved by the client team ... ="aligncenter" width="833"] the font is apex new, which is the closest to a font used in ... mentions that this is a "new identity", despite the website existing since at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want ... the Ben & Jerry's factory and got to sample a new mint fudge flavor ... . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  applied previously to MIT does not by itself impact your admission. It is ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in this entry. I'd like to be helpful as you prepare to submit your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station ... straightforwardness of New York. In a subway station en route to Ben's house in West New York, New Jersey (a wonderful name for a fake city, by the way), the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you're ... here writing this entry. Summers are a great time to focus your energies ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial ... to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  Postal Service? I should be able to get it postmarked by November 1st ... to get in all my materials by the end of the day today. Will i be ... some anxiety, I'm happy to answer some of your last minute questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next four years together, too. (I hope you'll stop by 3-107 from time to time ... sometimes, you want to be a little subtle in your MIT pride, while still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... by itself increase your chances of admission. What about new test ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... , it is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  managed to break away and get on the plane. If there’s anything I learnt ... , but what did happen was: > I got to visit the New England Aquarium ... whole experience and draws your complete focus to the exotic creatures on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... occurs to you that breaking your leg could actually prevent you from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  School in the fall. Summers 9-11: Sports camp, run by my school (oh, to be ... anyone. And by "anyone" I mean "me and the people I went to camp there with ... spent a summer back in New Mexico (can't get enough of that place) working

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  to get this redesign right, your ideas and thoughts and feedback are ... you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... the new website and what we do -- but as we think about how we help our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words to your web browser, and the best part is pictures are now super

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA ... to go off of or do you know what you're doing like the back of your hand? when do you get to learn how to do all this anyways? Yes, you can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it, you'll have to get your p[arents to sign it and fax it to us at ... your best way to get to MIT on public transportation. Most of you will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007