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  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... MIT.  On the Financial Aid Tracking System, you can view which documents have been received by the MIT Financial Aid Office.  You can learn more about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... student Or the slacker who doesn't work When I study I'm hardcore I can take any test No words can tell the stories psets tell Watch me when I work

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... pamphlet-creating admissions officers can't convey. MIT does its best to ... cannot convey everything that happens here, but we can talk about what we

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... , etc. It can be a very confusing and frustrating time, since these ... ’m happy to report that this can also be a very exciting time for college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best ... can be in someone else's dorm studying till 3, have "midnight excursions ... brighter and I can see the first rays of the new day. I remember writing in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  robust, lively post. You can imagine that it was once inundated with much ... . If you can find someone like that for you, you're gold. 3) A good way ... opportunity to really take a good look at yourself so you can write about what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part Two, you can view a PDF preview of what your application will look like ... admissions officers can get to know about this so that they don't think I am an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  things about MIT that you still can't replicate, no matter how many MIT ... Science this summer is kind of cool, but I can't wait to get back into saving the ... 's got the HPLC back up and running and that we can start collecting data

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in ... machine, but can only be paid for using a special laundry card, which can ... every four months. If you look at Ben's happy holidays entry, you can see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . There's also a 12-hour introductory class you can take that teaches you to ... upperclassman gave me good advice. It can happen.) I left the shop after only an ... shop so more people can be machining at once.) I helped bore holes on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  finally took the swim test! Yay, now I can graduate. In a random bit of ... on yourself and that you can accomplish and succeed and produce and ... , I think programs are overrated -- emailing professors can be a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  required, but if they can give more information, they can help you. The optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help ... even looked at? What ever happened to going the extra little bit? I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... that I'm capable and can do engineering things in interesting classes ... 're running on empty, you can run on intensity alone. Maybe not as fast as you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  , the reason APs help your application, as far as I can tell, is because ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some cases, not because they have magical properties. If you can otherwise

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . "Oh my gosh! I'm in college now! I can do whatever I want! Heehee, my ... : time management. I am sure that many of you can start your homework the ... failing stuff if you can help it. So while it's insurance, it's not

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , because that's where the physics department is, and I'm pretty sure you can ... don't think I can just change recitations or lecture times, since I ... advance!" Well, for some classes, you can just accept that you have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... dining hall dorms...you can probably see the conflict). Not in an FSILG ... Center options), or you can go out to eat. But before you decide to do that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  cases, however, the generated text can be used without a great deal of ... correct. An LLM can determine, for instance, that the most probable ... assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand” and can continue from there. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling ... ’m efficient at my work, I can achieve quite a bit if I manage my time well. That ... ), which as you can probably tell from the name makes a solar car and races

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  can be in your HASS major, which goes a long way towards completing the ... EECS (and many EECS majors do), you can continue towards your second ... if she can apply MIT later when she changes her mind to apply MIT for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005