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

  

  their time! Try to get your application components to us in advance of the ... 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 / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  people in one room without it getting too hot. My brass rat was about to ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... of ways to do it, visiting, info sessions, websites, etc. She mentions

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... we prefer to get it in the mail since it is easier to read. Sylvia ... for the MIT Class of 2009. Also, we're happy to get you in contact with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  incoming freshman will not have this semester to see what being in an MIT ... information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second ... was so impossible for me to get a double major? Maybe it has to do with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  powerful pulpit to write and speak extensively about how to navigate the ... in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... advice is to ask colleges directly how much weight they place on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  , engrossed in his talk. Photo taken from KDMS.[/caption]     How to ... eventful return back to the Institute. It's odd how quickly everything felt ... 't seen in nearly a year. Many hellos, how are you, how have you been, let

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  dragged me to the also-fairly-delicious Felipe's Taqueria in Harvard Square ... of an Anna's burrito to that of certain Schedule II drugs; in a ... sources of graphic content. Also, how am I supposed to center captions with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in touch with my EC and we agreed to meet at his office. He works out in one ... -way presentation. In a two-way conversation, for example, you can ask "and how about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to ... activity 9:54 pm – went to a Salsa Night at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already ... right corner of Thursday. Allan: In this week of September, I had to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... dollars in credit card debt, because they were like 'Oh man, look how cool

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  get used to that. I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... black cap and black gown to receive two bachelors degrees -- one in biology and one in brain and cognitive sciences. So as I walked to the exam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to ... fear to reproduce it in this post).  Insight: The &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  to get you here, and in the hope of realizing the better world that you ... (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog ... give you on how to do that: I don't sleep with my brass rat on. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... getting me out of bed, among other things that the cube gets me through in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  recognize how my chronic worrying and distress were beginning to wear on me ... get in contact with alumni, among other things. You can sort through ... going to be in Southern California, I narrowed the list down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... freshman physics students. In addition to weekly labs and weekly PSETS we

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... expected to understand this alphabet soup. Once you get here, though, you’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007