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  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  have missing components, don’t panic. We have not yet begun to ... other important info: Do not send your missing components by mail! If ... , even if it shows as previously received on Parchment, if it's not

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  institution, while holding out hope for good news from MIT. Those not offered admission, simply need to move on, acknowledging that enrolling at MIT is not ... between applications, the admission decisions tend not to change, and in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read ... double-yellow line. Do not merge into oncoming traffic for any reason. You

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  had not kept an open mind. I really took CPW as an opportunity to explore things that I had not seen before. So don't judge a book by it ... weather. I forgot my umbrella during my CPW. Not awesome. So pack a jacket

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  plumbing thing, and the crowd went WILD. Well, not everyone in the crowd ... few hours in Central Square -- not a far walk from MIT at all. Not a warm walk lately, but not far either... FIRST STOP: Rodney's Bookstore

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  , whether or not I double major depends on whether or not I feel like taking ... question is 8.044). This is a photography blog. I'm still not entirely sure ... off! A picture! But that's not all! Two! Two Pictures! 77 Mass Ave

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  their SAT, and got H + 5 A's. They applied and did not get into MIT. Does that mean MIT made a mistake by taking me and not them? Maybe, but it ... graduate school applications. I was worried and was like "OMG my GPA is NOT

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  right political debate. It's just not appropriate for an MIT admissions blog, and I'd have to pull it if that happened. It's not that I'm not ... discuss them. So what I'm asking you to discuss is not in regards to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  middle class families. (Let's not forget, though, that by far the most ... not the view of all admissions officers. We know that many homeschoolers are as involved as, if not more involved than, their traditionally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  over last year. Though the admissions office does not have an exact tally ... November into December. We have not yet determined on what date we will ... should wait for an official announcement from our office. We have not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  . Please do not harass your teachers or counselors if you don't yet see a ... may still be documents mailed in late October that have not yet been ... . We have not yet made that determination, and any speculation on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a ... junior year, from math to management) at any time. In short, you are not ... write HMMT? (not enough room to write it out) - What about emo? uhhh maybe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  . “are you doing ok?” “yeah” and they are clearly not ok. i don’t want to ... then i realize i’m not helping by keeping quiet, so i desperately think ... them heal on their own time. i want to tell them “it’s okay not to be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  the world, and I would've believed you. This place was not my own. I ... stairs. And a heavy door. And a hallway. Not The Infinite. A normal ... expression of sleeplessness I'm coming to terms with. But I am not inherently

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  not feel like it all the time, but we are resilient beings my friends. The people in your life should make your world bigger, not smaller ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  . Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done ... I decided *not* to be angsty. Instead, I wanted to compile all of my

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... the summer housing lottery. What other non-academic or non-work things

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  't have anything to do, I felt guilty - like I should be doing work or ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  :) ~*~ This IAP I went to the Philippines with Yuri ’10 and Anita ’11 to work on ... develop project ideas for MIT students to work on. We spent most of our time working with an organization called Gawad Kalinga (GK). GK is an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010