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  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... decisions will be checked and reviewed over the next few days as we draw ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it ... you have classes and psets and labs and tests again” was a rough

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  abroad for high school and university students. What’s cool: 6 weeks at a university abroad, but instead of studying (and doing psets and taking classes ... any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  , and especially for our office. We'll write more about it in a few days ... 're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story ... to have many questions around this, and we'll try to address them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  few years. I was really entertained by this clever and subtle hack, so I ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these ... -group, and the team working on the hack often included members of such groups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  to somewhere wild and exotic (give recommendations!) so I'm learning how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What is the mail address/fax number?

  Email: [email protected] Fax: 617.687.9184 Mailing address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E38-200 Cambridge, MA 02139
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  about it here and here) and has made appearances on the fingers of Tony Stark, the John Harvard statue, and soon, my classmates. In the several ... taping CVS pharmacy receipts and crumpled pset packets over the door window

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  complete the form and submit it by April 25, 2014. In the meantime, be sure to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... -May, once we know how many students have enrolled and thus, how many more

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted ... first session, and this time around I'm working with AP Physics. Physics is awesome and all, but that's not what I'm here for right now. Neither

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’s why I stayed at the Institute, and why I’d recommend it to other nerds ... find my best place at the Institute. And even when classes sucked (and ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  dream college. institution soulmates or whatever xx and i had a group of ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... build a life after." I said sure, and she wrote this post. I had planned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left three dark brown hairs on the pillow and two on the bed; the other had ... dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  waving our hands about? The fact is, you'd think swing states like Ohio and ... electoral votes and population normalized to Wyoming. [1]   STATE ... First some backstory. It's 2008, a leap year and a presidential

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Institute of Harvard and MIT, he's got a hand in most of the things that are ... Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock ... design, a computer-less setup that involves a microcontroller, a motor, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  write about it, what I'm doing and the conversations I've had, but ... can. Educate yourself and read articles and books and watch ... countless blogposts like this time and time again, from not feeling MIT enough

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  ,000 people a year in the United States and 250-500,000 people worldwide die ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens-et-manus spirit, students design, prototype, and test an actual flight vehicle for an external contractor. past years of 16.82 and 16.83 (the analogous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010