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• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  those students who particularly like the Boston area, you can also look at ... .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  difficult" - by MIT standards] Dear psets, In the past week, you've tried ... concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before ... , plugged in values, and spat out an answer. But not you. With you, a 15-word

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  off. There's no way Santa can afford to take time to go to Boston in ... holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen ... at least a little holiday joy and optimism (whether or not you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  to Boston, where, as you already know, I went to LeaderShape in an ... MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... , participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  amount of sleep you need (or in some cases, the amount of caffeine you can ... guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  international development, rest assured that no matter what you major in, you can ... . Anyways, you can actually step into the unit, look up at the showerhead, and ... innovation going on here is through the roof! You can view all the teams here

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try ... 't join twenty extra-curriculars because you think you have to in order to have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... if you're an upperclassman). Let us know which dorm you get temped in ... addicted to Facebook, you or Jess Kim? Prove your theory in 100 words or less

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in the orange fleece, in case you couldn't tell. This video also serves as ... So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the Charles River has been replaced by a partial one that I can glimpse if I ... was and still am afraid that if these kids confide in me, I won't know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is from a paper of Morgan's from 2004. As you can see, lots of proteins in ... for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It ... look up, up into the trees, to see if you can spot a lemur. There were so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny ... seeing some of you when I’m in Florida later this month and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  you guys to interview. I never used Skype in high school, but I think ... in particular you chose to apply to MIT. I spoke ad nauseum when I was ... to relax in #1, it does help if you do a bit of pondering before your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . If you are in the regular action pool (regular action applicant or early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to ... , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast ... magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... by temperature. You can also mouseover individual blocks to see data ... This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more ... ! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive ... We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know