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• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the ... Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow ... enthusiasts: Chris, Tiffany, and McGreggor are heading to Saint Louis for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  will take our records office to process and for it to appear on your ... Please remember that January 1 is the postmark deadline for students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you should have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... portions of the netting because the holes were too small for the balloon to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every ... signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  best options for your trace, or click on the triangle to the right of the ... working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... toolbar) and click on one of your objects. Hold shift to select multiple

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time ... .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... who need that class to graduate, then based on descending class year and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... been three months-ish since I got on campus over the summer. For just ... ago when my sister and mom finally got the chance to visit for a weekend

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  animation classes. BUT *excited inhale to prepare for a long run-on sentence ... narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... to take on the list. Step 3: Find the professor's email through his

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by ... effort into my work only to receive bad grades for them. And sure, grades ... to call people on their bullshit, although I still suck calling myself

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  projects.  On Friday, that project was to take revenge on some egg ... dressed up for the occasion The students have been working on their ... On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application. Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to decisions.mit.edu. This year, 9,557 students applied for early ... decisions. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications. Thank

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  works for you. Strange things happen to people who don't verify they will ...  @NightlyFieldLog on Instagram for calming cow illustrations, and even (especially) in ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to ... exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  would prefer for kids not to learn on their own, but most parents (myself ... I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... spontaneously reaching for the flip video camera when my son refused to eat his

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... as submitted on the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to ... EA to RA, write to [email protected] from the email address on your My

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches to this vast challenge, the time for initiating meaningful steps to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to ... ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do ... institution’s mission aligns with your own goals for the future, in addition to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025