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  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  Next Saturday, October 20th, is the deadline for Early Action applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular action, you may want to set that interview up pretty soon as well). For MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an ... cardstock. I had just made dinner for everyone, which included this strangely

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6 ... floor in despair and baking cookies for my [annotation note ... resets my “send help I am So Lost Right Now and I Know Nothing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I ... would probably sell her soul for coffee. But I didn’t become a regular, a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  soon as possible after grades are available for the fall semester or ... first trimester grades, even if we already have them.) Please send us the ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am no

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If your school uses a ... have them.) Please send us the form once your grades are released, OR by ... provide any and all grades available for classes you’ve taken in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If your school uses a ... have them.) Please send us the form once your grades are released, OR by ... provide any and all grades available for classes you’ve taken in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  for my brain to remember things, as I'll tend to ramble on and on like ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past ... did really, really horribly. For some reason, I doubt that is the case

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  . I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING ... AppleCare!" DEPRESSION: After sending the Mac to a third-party Apple

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student ... consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots and 2% for MIT faculty members*. *Disclaimer: this statistical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... . And then occasionally, for a real thrill, we'd go watch the B ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  stood up - woah, REALLY dizzy - aaand they pretty much took care of me for ... for MIT students. That also includes ambulance rides to and from MIT ... about sending a sick note to my TA, which they normally don't do over the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for ... Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL is the place that sends out robots to explore other planets. The high point for me was when I was on

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  -MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  ). she has a penchant for sending wonderfully hilarious and informative ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... . every semester, for teacher-parent conferences i guess, teachers would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a weekend, Seattle to visit friends, twice to Colorado Springs for training, Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when notifications will be sent." Well, I did say, "Because I do not work for the CEE

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005