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• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  a fee waiver, your family needs the $65 more than we do. If you are ... If you are applying to MIT this year (early or regular), here's an update on what you might want to be thinking about: For Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  story, if one at all. But, life was continuing to move on. In the Spring ... , if you’re reading this because you want to know what the secret to ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  financial situation. If I wanted to play the percentages, I’d be going into ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple ... to, he works his tail off. If Jimmy is a genius, he’s the hardest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have to send the December scores again or will collegeboard still be sending ... January scores will successfully be matched to my account?" If you tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how they've worked for me: Ice. I figured I could use ice to numb the pain

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  certifying that the application fee poses a financial hardship to your family ... to waive the application fee for anyone who cannot afford it. But don ... , people want to know if we're making decisions on everyone from the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  awesome their student is, and are trying to make the school understand. If I ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  advice would be to not sweat the small stuff. Everything will work out ... . Also, if you put too much text into the box, the bottom will be cut off and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  . But to answer the call of the Big Rocks, I must make the cold bother me ... who want to learn. I got to answer the call of the Big Rocks three ... the top do if you don't make it back to the bottom? [carousel image1

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  beyond the 16.67 million will be lost. What if Elliott had, for example ... it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I ... ), within those two hours, can handle a finite number of calls - then it

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  . I was focused on the big picture, this vague notion of “being smart ... be able to step back and look at the sum of the parts sometimes. Because even if you fail the test or lose the championship, all of those

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  forbidden hint) to be taking pictures. For example, during the GBIS A ... which I’d love to be a part of), to snap a picture. During the ... .. I laughed to the point of tears (I think you had to be there

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP ... world and contracts, pulling the blue piston to the left. The air is again ... repeats. The Stirling engine cycle can also be used "in reverse", to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  type of exoplanets to detect with what's called the radial ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... methods that scientists use to detect exoplanets is the transit method. When

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  ’m supposed to be enjoying myself, frequently I have work in the back of my mind ... equilibrium, there is a limit to how much I can handle and still be happy ... to be spending the summer in Seattle, where I plan on sewing and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  without handles. They're an absolute pain to deal with, especially if the ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We ... always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their deadlines and the addresses they need to be mailed to. First there was the ... . I'm tired just thinking about this. Moving on to....FEE results! The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  - cuz you can pass out of stuff or not take the FEE (woot!) if you do well ... .111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to ... (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  start by acknowledging that if the most important thing to you is a ... limit the number of classes you can take, so feel free to be one of those ... the overall feel to you? If necessary, make a chart and jot down pro

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

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