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  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... my local community college. If you've got your heart set on a specific

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and give you an opportunity to mention other updates since you submitted your application. Who ... available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If your school uses a

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

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and give you an opportunity to mention other updates since you submitted your application. Who ... available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If your school uses a

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

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by ... and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... isn't that bad. So therefore your outing will be inherently great. "HOW

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  in your college app process: good job! You're doing really good, keep ... continue to learn more as you finish up your application process! To help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and give you an opportunity to mention other updates since you submitted your ... your school uses a trimester schedule, please use your first trimester

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y’all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month’s theme…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  your friend has received his/hers and you haven't, don't be concerned. 2 ... majority of this mailing's contents can be found here and here, so if you're

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to ... advantage of during your time here. Your opportunities are only limited by the ... ingest before losing your sense of sanity). While the opportunities in

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  decisions have been made. But, if you're reading this, chances are you still ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in ... the next few days is one of your first big decisions. Some very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You’ll probably never have to write another uncomfortably personal essay ever again⁠01 unless you become a blogger, of course ! But, now comes…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  who needs sleep when you're in an amazing musical?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only for women until Persian traveler Jonas Hanway popularized umbrella use among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... you to show off your unique personality, because let's face it - you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  yourself without remembering that you're distracting yourself to forget the thing you're trying to forget (but failing, because now you've remembered ... the college application process, nevermind your classes, or work, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading ... . Fatima: Once again, we want your words— Alan: and we want them now in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... your questions later. And if you’re wondering why I didn ... this post is so long). Thank you all for your emails and kind words and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit ... with the assumption that you should only use your credit card for things ... number related to your credit history, which is something that people like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023