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  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  processing. If your school uses Naviance/Docufide to submit letters of ... : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of ... letters without it are at no disadvantage. We will accept your school's

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  experience. Sure, there are a half-dozen people at each of the schools I ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the ... newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other ... , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  of downtown Boston. I knew that this semester would be particularly tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I ... with a total of[annotation note="these also have associated numbers

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  offer, instead of focusing on what it requires you to give. When I was ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  government I knew about was the prom-planning of the high school level and ... Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . I soon forgot about my sorrows because of how much I loved my school ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... for high school!!!!!!shiftone"; remember, I was in your place about two ... high school twenty miles away from home. I have perspective. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  matter. The importance of your high school rank will linger through your ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7 ... exams before Monday morning; this led to some frantic texting of friends to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  couple years ago, maybe my sophomore year of high school, my mom told me ... of my senior year of high school, I remember trying to figure out where ... tell him it's a competitive school, that the possibility of me getting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021