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• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... technicals, for a while there, I was going to every single office hour offered

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... lots of time for delayed documents. We are happy to be flexible with ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  are reading, thanks for all the hospitality and to my folks who took ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  for this class mostly because the pure math major requires you to take a ... variables it takes to describe a space. for example, in order to describe any ... , i decided to go for it.  my class started by introducing exponential

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  any programs for parents, or is this weekend geared to convincing ... 2: Is there a standardized definition for "best match" to MIT? What is ... a talent that you bring to the admissions process. For music, we have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  -in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who ... zone! :) ) I've made my new year's resolution to try and work out more this year - what's your new year's resolution? Best wishes for a safe

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  As of yesterday, all 522 admitted students can log into MyMIT for the ... . Watch your mailbox! Finally, feel free to use this entry's fresh comments space for more admitted students chatting.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... also, well, created too many lines for computer programs to handle ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  just play it by ear and do whatever you like for a while. So, to the ... consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for ... from 3-5 for my own physics test on Thursday, and then find my friends to ... to look for a class/UROP/internship for IAP and an internship

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking ... ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  comes into play -- if you don't adjust for inflation, these amounts sum to ... grant for students who want to study abroad. I'm not sure what the ... Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not ... happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  . Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this schedule (hooray for end ... To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... writing text posts, but I just want to experiment more beyond comics and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Meetings… I hope you'll attend the event near you.

  

  Each spring Educational Counselors all over the world hold events for admitted students. The events are designed to provide you and your families with an opportunity to learn more about the things you really want to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... and feel it works well for us. One by one I’ve said goodbye to ... to Sacramento for the first central meeting of my California trip. Over

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only for women until Persian traveler Jonas Hanway popularized umbrella use among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of study that are substantively equivalent to corresponding MIT subjects. If your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are ... applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit