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  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of you have been checking the Application Tracking System on MyMIT, and may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  tells a lot of what's been going on. What's your favorite MIT hack? ... attracted quite a bit of news coverage. CBS Boston video The Boston Channel ... . You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  Today, of all days, in Jonestown, PA, eight members of my family bore ... fuel, of course, but Aunt Jen got to it first and made some stock instead ... appetizing. Unless, of course, you believe the twelfth or so verse of "We Are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday ... deadline has passed, the admissions officers are spending the bulk of our time evaluating the thousands of applications we've received. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not ... speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm ... 't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration. We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  themselves wrote. And on top of all of that, I get to write. Not just little ... ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  posting on the [annotation note="the schedule board is a beautiful mess of ... let us enforce curfew on staff with Nerf guns and alarm the rest of ... doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  ’t on libgen. Then, in a rush of power, I checked out books that had ... different academic perspectives. On my last day of Gaelic Folklore, we set up ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus ... kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You

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

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... 't need to send us money to hold your place. If you're still on the fence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... many things, have many talents, and are focused on what is really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes ... Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  outlet. It all began on the balcony of the McCormick's East Tower ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010