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  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... bringing someone back to your room/apartment/whatever; "That's so Middleditch ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  shouldn't come - you'll still get to meet the alumni interviewers for your ... that you're going to see MIT. When we're on the road, we can't make that ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts ... deal before you offer your intelligence :) for those who want to join ... birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get ... 't hope to answer everyone's questions and echo all of your feelings, but I ... 'd rather have meet a few people and then take time to reflect on your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... interested in getting to know me- personally- other than my resume, or my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units ... , bring your notes to school, and you can take the advanced standing exam ... free time to take more classes that could help you figure out your major

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  telluride, hematite, and fool’s gold. I was extremely lucky to get LCO, which ... Engineering’s website because it has a neat background graphic that I wanted to ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  lot of attention from your host if you get here tomorrow, there are A ... to drop off lights, glowsticks, and popcorn machines, the grass is growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ’m saying is that there’s a lot more to life than getting all your homework ... that sometimes when you apply online, you have to keep your essays under ... as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  bargaining didn't get me very far, and it became pretty clear I'd have to make ... My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are ... a way to keep sane. It's a way to vent your pain, anger, joy, and ... homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how ... MIT as a school to receive your scores directly or we will not receive ... note that you do not need to express mail or overnight any part of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you're planning to come to MIT you should read up on the cheer before you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... the option to stay in your temp dorm if you want, although you shouldn't succumb to laziness and not explore just because you sorta like your temp

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ’t want to eat the laundry detergent or get it in your eyes. Procedure ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string ... will grow and develop within your environment and to a potentially large

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  parts of your personality, because you're going to get enough of the technical side in your classes. We then went to a hallway in the Z Center ... campus to give a lecture next week, and I'm trying to get him to be in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  think it’s pretty simple. You get assigned your dorm and room sometime ... not, but the point is that you actually know where you’re going to be living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay ... YOU NOT LIKE FAST FOOD!!!??? Ahha love to hear your response on that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010