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• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  accordingly on time.  If you are using prescription medicines, try to find a ... [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6 ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ... affordable and you don't need a car. If you want to stay closer to MIT, though ... brought our dogs to Revere Beach (the beach has its own stop on the subway

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  could do to put a smile on my own face—and the faces of the people around ... failed to list in this note on my phone: skip 390 recitation.  Am I a bad ... was going to search for its new home with a stop by Boomie’s. That is

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information, with a human touch, to help people navigate the admissions process while

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

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  to video game The Last of Us, and is now working on a fantasy trilogy ... all kinds of stories to be told. Faith Erin Hicks has a website ... seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  If you are applying to MIT this year, here's an update on what you might want to be thinking about: If you haven't yet done so, set up a My ... playing on a varsity sports team at MIT, please contact the appropriate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... recently moved to a new, modernized building with a lot of neat technology ... .[/caption] France and Spain have a lot of influence on Andorra, as is to be expected

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... because your application was already strong enough to make you a contender

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... metal converter to a machine that ran on 10,000 volts. Would the converter ... said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  year you're smarter, have money, and have a new addition to your resume ... even available, but it's a quick way to earn some extra cash without ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  is written on the application. Leon wrote, "I just have a quick ... January scores on a case-by-case basis. Email [email protected] to make a ... " wrote, "Hi Matt, I have a question about the Sloan school. On U.S New and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... sweet red beans on top. The Empathy Exams (9783 words). A powerful, moving ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the ... nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  students have joined a mailing list and Slack channel to work on ideas. I don ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... be able to collapse on a Southern Californian beach for a week. But MIT ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... Student Gathering as a student. I tried to impart on the 2021's everything ... note: I found a fun little website I'd like to share with everyone. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  and took a leave from MIT to become the founding CEO of HelmetHub, which ... 2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically applied to four colleges that had some variation of a Neuropsychology major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007