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  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or ... , you are automatically reconsidered during RA next spring. You are at no

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information ... to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  semester at MIT, on the academic side of things, I took four science classes ... fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers ... Yesterday, a prefrosh friend of mine sent me this Facebook message: I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  different parts of your application. On your MyMIT site, you will find the ... ), within a couple days of registering. You should contact your EC as soon as ... with each recommendation letter. You will submit your part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass Ave tomorrow morning at 10 and YOU should go see them! ME: Everyone ... think I may even have received an email from my mom at one point, even

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages ... have been a number of you like this recently. Me: "Ugggtttthuuuu---OH?". Receptionist: He'll see you at 11:40 am. (Fast Forward) Doctor: It seems like

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  application component at this time. There are still more weeks of reading to be ... As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau ... make me a little bit uncomfortable. Now, TBP isn't anything like one of ... reactor. Of course, I'm totally forbidden to tell you anything about what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  the driving test, this is not a strong indicator of my actual chances at ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  ."]HouseComm[/annotation]is at 10. 10.05 - 11 pm: the floor that is in charge of snacks brought ... light comes in bright blue around the edges of my windowshade, and my room ... on MITConfessions. 9.35 - 9.45 am: i reluctantly get out of bed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  the hourly workload of a class, I'd look at the average number of hours ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  mirror (used to take a picture of me). Chris showed up at 6 and then ... coffee at the hotel was the bottom of the pot and burnt, not a pleasant way ... redeemed at the Livescribe table we had set up in a central part of campus

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful ... hundreds, maybe thousands, of people, not only across campus, but among ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  , surprisingly) sat in the second row; seeing her doubled over at one of my jokes ... others began to do the same; then, after looking at a wall of problems, we ... Two weekend ago, I spent my Saturday at a wonderful show called the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... ALL the floors, not just Conner 3. At the end of the evening, freshmen ... flooring cycle (generally at the end of the year). So that's Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  graduate community at mit econ before this year, but had seen lots of faces ... study. Why don’t they instead look at …” Whenever people ask me big ... along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021