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• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year ... friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to your community

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  them all to read this blog. The point is, you should always make your ... , you shouldn't lie to your friends, despite the fact that I do it every ... rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  whether to submit it as it currently is, though. If your answer is so long ... self-reported grades form. If you need to update your application after ... changes in your coursework. You will also be able to provide information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  only need to send in your February Updates and Notes report, which will ... you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your activities, etc ... , but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to this report for your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach ... to get sucked into the MIT mindset (or as I like to think of it, the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... power drill. Apparently one way to get out a stripped screw is to dremel a ... use a flathead screwdriver to get the screw out. The rationale is that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers ... , establish my place, and figure out what I really wanted to get out of this ... going to gain a better and better understanding of how to prepare for your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  weren't in your file, we'd contact your school directly to get them.] ... Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... too late in the process to submit additional or missing application

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  'll be your first MIT math class but you have to start somewhere. And trust ... 's taking the same classes, and you're bound to find pset partners without even leaving your floor. The bottom line is that it's up to you- if you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . Your waitlist decision gives you exactly that: the opportunity to be on ... nothing to lose. That's not something you get when you get admitted RD, nor ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  flexibility in choosing your classes; you get to pick six electives from any of ... convince your GRT to get you a cat or dog and keep it in their apartment ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore ... [/annotation] classes you’d need to take to major in 6-2 and get an MEng

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date ... . Kim asked if it's possible or easy to get a single as a freshman at MIT ... 's possible to get a single as a sophomore, junior, or senior if you want one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  my lab, so I tend to get food truck pretty much every day. So, for this ... I relied So, that was my lunch for a month. I used to get Anna ... woman. Seriously! Just look at the Special K website as compared to, say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  to leave, which meant I had time to change and get to my next class on ... ’s really satisfying working out, not to mention an awesome habit to get into ... Kevin does them. That just goes to show you that at MIT, your classmates

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  do not need to express mail or overnight any part of your application ... whether to submit it as it currently is, though. If your answer is so long ... self-reported grades form. If you need to update your application after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... , making it impossible to get out. We spent a lot of time troubleshooting, to ... excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021