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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  taking catnaps and eating cookies. I've managed to get a few experiments in ... any class until February 7. Whoever invented IAP gets a big kiss from me!

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your ... send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  want to spend a lot of time on the boards and the blogs, but a guy can

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week, so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston ... Common Ice skating at Frog Pond (in a few months) Sam does his best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... in the office at 8:30. I AM A MACHINE. For some background on me

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  From the MIT News Office: 'Green' labs project wins EPA prize An MIT student design project has won a People, Prosperity and Planet Award ... and 17. To win the P3, a project had to demonstrate how it would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages: "Surviving those advanced integral calculus lectures and organic chemistry labs ... , 'but you have to be a good communicator to be put in charge of large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Map retinoid Binding Sites on Protein Kinase C A Practical ... Analysis of Disease Susceptibility and Hereditary Patterns Using a Multi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Lunch

  

  I've gotten a few search engine hits for "MIT ISEF Luncheon," so for those of you looking for that information, here it is: The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for Intel ISEF participants, their families

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  With 5 days until the May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making a decision? If so, what are your remaining questions? What factors are ... . Q. I'll provide a country and its largest city by population. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  can promise you. If you received such a letter, you have every right to ... understand that it was wholly unintentional. Some have remarked that it is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  with an asterisk. They should not list practice results or enter a superscore as a single sitting. Students should self-report scores from all
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a ... processing. Please send a detailed email to [email protected] describing the
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students every year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds ... have completed more than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... a button that says "View Update." Make sure that you are ready to ... fact, be like Boroton, who has never had a thought in his life. Go listen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from ... but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a ... unnerving. I went to a presentation yesterday. It was meant to shock CEOs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... here when you get back.) i had a list of distractions on hand, so i can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... ."]hard music problems.[/annotation] Last week, a (non-blogger) friend of mine ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019