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  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  on January 1, making the MIT Regular Action deadline 5 hours away. For ... your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  light that, for simplicity, we can measure as an angle between 0° and 90 ... ) 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded "for experiments with entangled ... protein reacts with other chemicals in the eyes, translating into an optical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing ... interested in taking anyway.) Am I prepared for the workload? It's always tempting [annotation note="Admittedly, I have somewhat of an oversized ego."]for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  looking at the 3-D printing tag in MIT News, we see that 3D-printing isn't a ... in this day and age and make a living for ourselves. It's difficult to ... Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  it bluntly, I studied harder for that test than I ever had in my life ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend. By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ...  is... quizbowl! I wrote about it here. This semester will be an adventure in me ... were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Yesterday, as we made circles in an empty school parking lot, the sky stormed ... -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Wednesday afternoon, November 21 through Monday morning, November 26 for the ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime ... this holiday. If you are an Early Action applicant and your My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  Cormick. This is my room just after I moved in. It doesn’t really look like ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... partners for Science Olympiad, so I was in his garage all the time, arguing ... always soaking in nostalgia for the present. Dreading the decay that would

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  There are two meals I’ve had consistently this quarantine: for breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the ... .  Put all the ingredients except for the potatoes in the rice cooker. The

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  and crumble in ways that were not previously noticeable. for instance ... , creating an irregularity in my heartbeat. this was pretty scary at first, so ... with changing how you walk in response to an injury is that you can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of ... had left, and in the moment that she traded her life for our being, she

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... in their red Parent Connector” polo shirts so keep a lookout for them ... the financial aid process in general? This year there will be an open

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  time to take in everything around me. For the most part, campus looked ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... courtyard. Home. I’ve been in quarantine ever since, waiting for the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... their summer. Look at all that smog yum! They soon settled into the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  ’t. It’s difficult to make time for people. The people in my life are very ... On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  stirred within me an excitement for... life in general. I know I’m being ... receive $1,000 in seed funding for their project and mentorship from MIT ... the 2019 THINK team saw in my proposal but THANK YOU for believing in me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  them, so I’m glad that I made the time for makeup in 2020, especially as ... 11 in 2020, I started writing/finished 13 in 2020.  Hair looks: I ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  , make new memories, and fall in love with Boston for the first time. I ... to get the city's approval to make it an in-person ceremony at the last ... 've been holed up in my room doing work for the past few days unless you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021