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  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  on January 1, making the MIT Regular Action deadline 5 hours away. For ... us know ASAP. Be sure to validate your Part 2 (on page 10) well ... people submitting the application after midnight. If this happens to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... thirty-four seconds to walk down the Infinite Cooridor when I'm doing the ... Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  covid. without the rhythm of the semester reminding me to get tested on ... being on the writing team means i have a lot to be excited about. but it ... inability to play tennis on using the computer eight hours a day. my dad calls

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... a poem.’ The workshop format pushed me to try out different forms I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  her instrument. In second grade, she wrote "I want to play the cello ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... interview was on 6.004 material, and I happened to be in the Intro to Caches ... year because I got into the first job I applied to. And I missed out on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... . On an only slightly related note, I was lucky (?) enough to spend the ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  , but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual ... the betrayed party would find out. Here, the affair seemed to be the ... sun as a metaphor for Meursault’s super-ego to criticize the societal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  share my experience with you, to explain to the sources of my views on ... to find projects to work on in the meantime. Not only that, we will ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a ... civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on sustainable infrastructure for the US or the developing world. As I started to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... interests. While I do plan on going directly to medical school next year, I ... consulting externship ended up being the perfect way for me to satisfy that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  ) arrived, we moved on to a second spot by the pier, and set up again. I saw ... 5:55am on Sunday: one must rise early to catch the early birds ... more than listening to the music on my computer or my iPod. There

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  the textbook more than just about any other textbook I've had to use, but I like the material. It's relevant to what I want to do. 6 ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  decided it was time to get the show on the road. We started our off ... the more conservative halls on campus, people started asking questions ... given himself the nickname "el Che", sent the following to the dorm email

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  the course title is "gender," the class is focused more on how to do ... PROGRAMMING Topics: 6.00 is known as an introduction to Python, but the ... hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  armed guards, waited for the second wave of runners to come by, and hopped ... to the marathon. It's pretty cool! It says "Conner 2" on the front ... -- Mitra had the forethought to go to The Coop and buy a red MIT tank-top on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... , Admissions asked all the dorms to put on a "signature event" that best ... to figure out housing. I thought it would be easy, but seeing the huge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  paraphernalia I was exposed to, I decided to test my own limits on the way back ... ="because apparently y'all care about TikTok THAT much"]the second most important event ... surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025