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  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  School Report, can also be downloaded from MyMIT. The deadline extension means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your ... over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action ... , we will consider all of your new scores. MidYear Grades: We do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  school: Troy High SchoolCollege: MIT '05, BiologyFavorite thing about MIT ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... high school, but times that i remember with the sort of fondness that ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  school year, the class council announced its decision of a ring committee ... prior to the start of the school year. Finally, with all that said, all ... The class of 2011 all got this e-mail this morning: Class of 2011

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... movie adaptations of good books, clothes that are the wrong size, the

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , and school is a pretty big part of life. But yes, awesome things have ... tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school, having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  pick up in high school, but for the rest of us who stared out the windows dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  ], [annotation note="Calculus 2"]18.02[/annotation], [annotation note="Tool Design, a replacement MechE class for 2.00B, Toy Design, which didn't runt his ... note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  them! 6.046: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - I like this class a lot ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my life. So, there. I’m a big fan of Saturdays. I often have a PSET due

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  devious puzzle designers. Below are some of those outrageous intellectual ... novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... 's boring, because you've already solved both mysteries and are tired of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get