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  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... send us any ideas once you're in the space to do so. March 10th, 2020 ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  E-3 (admissions summary) card: I: We have your Interview in your ... interview in your folder. We understand that geography can be hard, so we ... or an email/phone call), but we don't have an interview report in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  getting your footing, it's not a requirement by any means. It's not a requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... the year after that. So, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to try to get a ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  before getting too comfortable yourself." Cut to a shot of a parent ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  you're likely to have a decent amount of separation in the bands you see ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat ... -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to run anywhere from 3 to 17 miles in a closed loop around the river. 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ... Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -258-8304. Please be patient, as materials take a day or two to process. Now, to get ... ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never ... to wait before reading your application. We will fully review every

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

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  your choice, taking my advice may not necessarily help you to get into ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to ... myself without the energy to stand up anymore and fell asleep at a table in

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you're ... laser printer from the late '70s in a glass display case in the cafeteria ... 's been very friendly and generous, going out of their way to include me in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you ... not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  in a rush to get to the destination. It's not even that I've never ... places students in schools abroad to teach short courses ... . Plus, I was so focused on actually getting in to college that I didn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures ... of what you're going to get is going to be camera-phone pictures. I ... '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to ... 've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  majority judgment. (in case you're interested, he's a fan of the Cordorcet ... 's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012