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  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  requests: At this time, do not send a second copy of something that you ... will not be penalized in any way. At this time, please do not call or ... do is tell you that MyMIT is up-to-date and to be patient as we process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or depending on the converstaion, it might be "Chris, what have YOU been doing?", but under no circumstances "Chris, what have you BEEN doing?", that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  perhaps a couple juniors and seniors (we do not plan to hire a sophomore ... the single most important part of your application.While you do not need ... preference for folks who do have active blogs. If you do not currently keep a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  Governor's schools Governor's schools directory I do not recommend these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college application." This should be for personal development. We do not expect that students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... registered for MyMIT, which, if you haven't yet, you should do as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... do with me being amazing and more to do with the fact that I know my ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...and_hand.shtml MIT students do it all night (Sam): Sam's five favorite all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  , sorry, but I have one quick question..How do you get to be a blogger on this website? I know you have to be associated with MIT, but do they just pick random people on campus, do you need connections, or what? Way back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... if you are doing a Course 6 or Course 8 UROP or if you are a freshman ... Guidelines website. If youТƒфre interested in doing a UROP this semester, now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the ... that the reviewers will send the paper back and ask us to do another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System can do to you. Despite my cold, I ... idea what I'm doing," I was pretty proud of myself, although I'm sure all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  pretty surprised how many communities we do know about) with resources like the US Census' American FactFinder. And what kind of high school do you ... throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story ... to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... what I spent my high school summers mostly doing. So at the end of my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  detective also asks, "Alongside SATs and SAT11s I have had to do GCSES and Alevels which are graded exams in all the subjects that we do, will these ... taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about

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

  BoA & Restricting

  

  "Korean Music Countdown" on the International Channel, as we do most Monday ... . Adriana would really like to submit 800 words. What should you do? Well ... length of your essay. We do not have an auto-word-counter for the online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  Do you LOVE robots? Do you LOVE Wicked? Do you LOOOOOVEE FREE BODY DIAGRAMS??   Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing and Design Final competition!!! This semester, MIT students have been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  like rambling on about what I've learned (nor do I think I've narrowed it down quite yet). What I do feel like doing, though, is sharing few of the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  a while a few days ago. I probably should’ve been doing other things ... /or care about all of them. I’m glad to have all of these opportunities to do ... same for them. There are things that I want to be able to do for my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do ... do after graduating, like: going through the same evidence over and ... until i think about whether i'm doing it. i'm reminded of this saying in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022