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  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... international students.   We are less than two weeks away from the Early ... some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  you can get to MIT significantly before September. Well, the choices are yours. Soon you'll be getting "The Next Big Mailing," (or have you gotten ... prefrosh are trying to figure out the best way to spend that last summer

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... some from the Conner 2 holiday dinner. Unfortunately, I can't find the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when MIT's schedule and Harvard's schedule are pretty much the same (MIT and Wellesley use the same academic calendar; I'm not sure about the two art

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... MIT has had those words written across the bottom. After freshman year ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is ... Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I ... summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  This past weekend, the US underwent one of the biggest snowstorms of the decade (at least that’s what Yahoo news told me) impacting more than half the country. Most people I knew were anxious about the storm

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  I'm so excited that I'm just about ready to kiss the Logan Airport ... ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... , whose format I have remained loyal to five semesters down the line.  

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen. What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my ... weird nerd thing since I was young and declared Neptune the greatest

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Action — 29,282 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2029. As of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I’m happy as we pass the setting sun? from

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  not very legible but it’s cool that they’re there *should* earn the ... follow societal norms.  desktops get more and more comfortable as the semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does

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

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... to be interminably on the internet: Cambridge weather sucks. Why would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022