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

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On ... allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  message here is simple. MIT teaches more than engineering. It teaches you to ... company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas ... to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... -acquired physics/astronomy/calculus/programming skills to calculate its orbit. That

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  : Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  other. It is in your best interest to complete your financial aid ... it is always best to ensure your happiness no matter what the outcome ... "), we admitted 1715 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a ... Confused, it's about time I watch some new stuff. Orange is the New Black is ... good use.   So there you have it, a couple of things I want to do

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  is my best friend. Have it on hold, you’re ready to go! Swipe, swipe – feels like Boston is resting in my palm. Although, it was my first time ... . The whole campus is sprinting towards "end-of-semester", and it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... go to California. Honestly, that was it. I love the beach (evidence: I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... ultimate goal is to develop treatments for scarring that can sometimes occur ... can guess, animal surgery is a pretty big deal, so I had to don full

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... reach of MIT and its relationship to the world  Connect to the rest of ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... fever down when it peaked that night as I scrambled to finish my 20 ... touch it, my defense mechanisms kicked in, reacting to the stressful

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ...  one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is ... satisfaction! I have a confession to make. After trying the Putz microwave, it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  't receive a letter, now is a great time to sign up for MyMIT! It's also worth ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to ... don't have any questions find it interesting and helpful to hear other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come ... .) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (or BCS, or course 9) is a small-to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hello, after six years

  

  i find harder to talk about, have changed me and my relationship to writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i ... who really needs them to work, because that is where we find our care

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... into MIT. I’d felt compelled to apply to the "match" school because it ... Admissions office knew I wouldn’t fit in. It was liberating for me to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  .033): Same as above. -Intro to Cosmology (8.286): It hurts to drop this class ... into this class on a masochistic whim and loved it. Whether I add it to ... is connected to anything, as long as I didn't have to pay more than $9

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  -Snowman League, was attached to the traffic cone. Let it be known, to whomever ... is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were ... a picture of this process, this is when we started to realize how big

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can ... . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... have is to be confidently relaxed. I hope that you have gone both through ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006