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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their additional documents via Naviance, SOCIR, or other methods. Applications will
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  .']our Area Director.[/annotation] It would be fine, right? I had done the math ... , to buy into this myth that they should always be doing more. In the ... the standard was our choice to begin with, and that failing to achieve

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  hard work would be destroyed. Story/cultural: If I save this, I will ... don't think my Sunday will be all too eventful -- just psetting ... the things I applied to so I know what my commitments will look like for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  limit, so I unfortunately failed the ASE for this class at the beginning ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  laugh tracks, the special was expected to be a flop. The special turned ... issue will be necessary to combat it. I think this line from Garfinkle ... typical worry is that machines will become human-like; the more pressing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night ... question earlier this week via email that said, “What’s it like being in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Game, you lose. Rule 3: Loss must be announced. Basically, the objective ... - really, it is all going to be okay. Whether the admissions decisions are ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for ... interview will be waived, and your application will not be adversely affected ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  field that separates the two dorms, since it freaked me out being in such ... would knock the wind out of me without fail, which wasn't the most ... i had enough time to make it to the studio without being late. i was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  one, knowing that the action of choosing will change me in an ... leave MIT because it will be better for me? Am I ignoring why I chose MIT ... my skills, even if it opens the possibility of failing. It means

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  the left. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively online ... your MyMIT account. There will be no interim screens, so you should be ... decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being ... . Just to be clear, the prospect of drawing a human body intimidates. the ... willing to fail, and predictably, my first attempt was sort of pathetic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  we teamed up to roll the base which Dan insisted had to be at least as ... top of the base. After several failed attempts to lift the beast and ... possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  .[/annotation] Or, well, [annotation note="it will not be"]it will be when I post this ... will be precooked, and very small. We're not ready to spend 8 hours ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  -Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself ... will be! We also covered everything from AP Physics C: Mechanics, that ... story that he failed at figuring out the bomb on purpose.] Anywho, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  ), committed to supporting the academic, financial, and personal goals of ... -achieving academic high school student before entering the service and have not ... transfer admission. MIT doesn't offer any online degree programs, but if you
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  Rule itself, though I will also be detailing what the Rule is here. While the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... a bit vague, let me be perfectly clear: do not break the November Rule

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  flower fails to bloom because of the environment. But because it fails to ... A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  be able to honestly say that, but I will at the very least try very ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for ... , though, so I’ll be more mindful of my workload in the future. I’m not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  the test fail (the top right corner of the statue is reflecting light ... The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... the night before it was due), Danny had a CMS.100 essay, Allan had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017