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  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  quick vacation to celebrate the new year (and then starting the regular ... students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you ... to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  everywhere in NOLA, from the decadent parade floats that seem to be a year ... vitality and very special way of life, and many of us are hoping to come back ... [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  thought it'd be fun to put together a study vlog captured during a recent ... Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  advice would be to not sweat the small stuff. Everything will work out ... and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On ... mail documents to us. All letters must be typed or written on official

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  endurance running, they offer ways to negotiate progress without being solely ... tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the ... can be stated as follows: there is often a tendency to see technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  plastic bags and enthusiasm. It was like we had found a way to bottle the ... hung from branches, channeling our inner three-toed sloths. Along the way ... and we headed back to the buses, sad to be leaving the crimson yellow

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  everything I wanted to be, but everything I wished I could find around me as I ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... arrived at MIT with the raw materials I needed to be an adult -- maturity

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  throughout the greater Zürich area. I got really lucky to be placed in one just ... great semester, and to Floor 1 for being the best floor too! https://youtu.be ... abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  , burdened as they may be by a brobdingnagian backpack. See, sometimes, what ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... by semester two (or once you become a sophomore the regular way), that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  odds being: 1/12+1/6(1/12+1/6(1/12+......)) all the way to infinity ... Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time ... uninterrupted study time. By the way, I'm not a double major anymore. More on that in a later post. Also, I didn't want my experience this week to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  , "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au ... questions - remember, the only way out is to THINK your way out. Enough said ... then I've held several positions, all related in some way to minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to ... find ways to take care of yourself and ease the stress, whatever that ... i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... ,000 quarters. Good start! Still going strong! Still a LOOOOOONG way to go!I gave ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  will be honored by speakers, recognized by faculty, and handed a well ... distinct meanings: to be made callous and indifferent, or to become sturdy ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  totally unbearable. And now he doesn't always act the way he wants to act, because he wants to be recognized in the way he's used to being recognized ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  this by bribing us with things we would otherwise not be able to afford ... circuit) tape out before the deadline which just so happened to be the first ... ) (+Dohyun)”. While Andi seemed to be diligently take notes on the panel

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025