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  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  application deadlines for this year remain unchanged: November 1 for Early Action (EA), and January 1 for Regular Action (RA). While there are still ... can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... in. Where am I, anyways? Second excuse: I started working for ... yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  presentations when we're on the road, or come visit campus, we have a sign-in for ... and use it in their admissions decisions. For those colleges, seeing ... 's certainly value in coming to visit campus for you to learn about and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... be an exercise in visual art and composition. But for me, it would also ... last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  you've made a choice that is right for you. The only thing we ask in ... the right students who could be great candidates for our institutions ... ...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  also be another free walk-in clinic on November 14th at MIT Medical for ... , humans, and pigs, but it has been more widespread than H1N1 for the past ... got vaccinated! For free! Every year, MIT administers the seasonal flu

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  Battlebots early to help with another event, I’d led the event in full for ... easy to lock in on mixing ice cream for two straight hours on two ... out in that magic for myself. [carousel image1="114849" image2

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... out of power midair and came in for a glider landing--except the wind ... weight, we're shooting for somewhere in the vicinity of a respectable fifth

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  for me in 21M.302, so I baked him some cookies. However, I had to use ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  myself for making it that far in a relatively competitive program. I pretty ... it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  process? 2) what does the admissions office look for in applications? and 3 ... . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  ? Also, what are the math requirements, beyond GIRs, for majoring in bio ... prefer to start out in classes in which they have a stronger footing. For ... crying in baseball? Well, there's no crying in science either

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for myself because schools in the UK apparently often don't have dining ... London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  people) ended up in one room, waiting for the professor. A half-hour past ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in ... transcript. I wanted to save my money for in-person classes. I am still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... spend the holiday with the family (Mom, Dad, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin -- in other words, all my relatives that are currently in this country). And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  Summer has [annotation note="in academic calendar only. it is ... campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are ... has some new baby bloggers, all very excited to write for you! After

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  in an amazing urban environment (aka Cambridge/Boston) where there ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  for one to preserve communities like this in extended periods of time ... out multiple times in the past, I know I'd do the same for any future ... experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020