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

  

  conducted interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

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

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... ’s meeting to try to get you a few minutes of his time after he finishes Wait

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  method. We will continue to accept pieces of your application even after ... , buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted ... , for the pieces that come via snail mail, we have to open the envelopes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  't worked before, in my case), and talk about logistics like how we get to ... . And sometimes we take a Lyft to get back home, but most of the time we ... like VS Code or Google Docs, we'd tell him to do it tomorrow. It came to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  midnight).   As soon as you get off the plane, follow the signs to the Silver ... pay to get on the train. You didn’t have to pay to get home from the ... to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and ... get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of ... research project...or the time I spent literally ten hours trying to get a ... benefit of having the tools you need to get the job done. On the other hand

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  done and knew that I had to get tested. I had my blood drawn and sent to ... to terms with destiny, deciding to get surgery and when, figuring out ... of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... first thought in my head will be the study group I had to get me through ... all the Ivies? Well, for one, CPW. Go to CPW if you get the chance, it

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  're working on. At these presentations, you get the chance to hear directly from ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... , and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  mine at MIT was really interesting — and it was good to get a new ... , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person ... daytime so there was nothing to observe, but I couldn’t stop thinking about

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  blank wall. I stole the following picture to further illuminate(lol, get ... know, untamed, wild, free, yeah.) Anyways, this one is harder to get to ... to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  total of over $50,000 dollars. They were able to get a whole underground ... that has some sort of entertainment value will get its 15 minutes of fame. And for this project, they got it. (Google "Dance Floor") But they also

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  then (finally) get a dog. Everything was going according to plan. I was getting lots of responses to my applications, did several phone interviews ... seemed like everything was the worst and it was hard to just get out of bed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... a little surreal to Freaking Weird when the nurse described the method ... left to get a snack. When I returned, I was out of breath (there was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... , though, I think they complain about junior lab. It's best to come into ... weeks, you are expected to have learned how to operate your first set of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... 's definitely something to think about. This event, like the French Hip Hop I ... French-language students at MIT are benefiting from a breakthrough method

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015