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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that ... are in tough financial shape and make a good faith effort to inform us ... the word limit. You may choose to send in the essay at a length that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  each paid $2 to get in, and were handed 5 meal tickets. In addition to ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... (without logging in!) at my.mit.edu. I know this has been long requested by non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  having to reprogram all of that, and in these past four months, I think I've made progress in terms of learning to trust people and see the good in ... to learn and gain from it. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to visit. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  . (Oh, and it's got facts and stuff on it.) With that in mind, here's to ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated ... right from the get-go, but after walking down MIT's Infinite Corridor, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  get it out of the way and not have to worry about squeezing it in later ... never ends, and now I won't be so lucky to get my application read by Matt and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve ... directed me to work with Greg Christie to fix the icon. ... But in the ... think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  recapped the whole semester in preparation for the final. To the tune of ... to go to class. ("Next Monday, I promise!") Great! Good. Get into MIT ... physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely ... three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who ... for sure."]highest % of lines in S9.[/annotation] There's something to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not ... incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps ... How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  Engineering. This is a great way to get introduced to the field, with some ... talking about a fall term class she's helping to teach. She's been getting a ... gather to ponder HBO's "Sex and the City." [...] Students in the elective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  him during the morning assembly. But you are determined to get into ... voice in the movement. Many are surprised to hear that the first ... that allowed the US to become the current world leader in higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  pictured getting super soaked by a five year old in the flyer) 8) Tickets ... ’t just go to for the food. But in all seriousness, this event is super fun ... We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  getting myself to write a novel than read one. Which brings me to the next ... in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  managed to run four miles, throw together a tofu-tomato-mushroom salad, get ... . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008