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  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  community, consider sending in some of your work. If you are interested in ... and TOEFL) is 3514 and our ACT Code is 1858. And if you haven't yet ... great time to register for the January administration of the tests, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  University  Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public ... pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  stories of two social housing co-ops in New York City as they contemplate ... This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT’s deep well of events: book talks, participatory activities, gallery

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  options are near new york or the bay area, where most of my friends will be ... lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of ... to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  of Cooper, Project STEEM mentors at Texas A&M University-Commerce, are ... Princeton, Cornell, Haverford College, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, University of ... , we are nearing the end of our series Introducing the Class of 2013. An

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... aptly titled: The game of rules and living by them. Song: The Name of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... complete list of sessions, click here. You might be wondering, what happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  university." There are a lot of very, very good universities, that are just as ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... , citing a lack of interviewers in my region. Will this adversely affect my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... University of Cambridge. Typical weeks, honestly. Now clearly, some of this ... , while Europeans do something called "enjoy life". It reminded me of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  resident of the US and has not taken the TOEFL or the ACT) if all of the ... Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  recommend sitting for the TOEFL instead of the ACT; the TOEFL will then take ... victims of natural disasters. I myself am from Naples Florida and just got ... they will ever reach MIT nonetheless reach MIT in a reasonable amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... , Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... feat of making science unbelievably boring. So while I was at home this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... provide some snapshots of MIT: 3/26/07: MIT models interdisciplinary supply chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007