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  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... is an unprecedented increase of 66% over last year, when we received 20

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  or in between. Create something silly with or for your friends. Watch ... Sometimes I feel like an alien because [annotation note="a fact that many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it's bad for my eyes and my back and my body. Coming to MIT gave me an excuse ... /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  "Established for the Advancement of Science" suddenly held an entirely new ... Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  an Albertsons parking lot and dislocated my knee. For the first time, I ... appreciation for the people and experiences in my life. To my to-be college ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  bagels smothered in cream cheese. Also, I had caviar for brunch. This is now on my resume, in case you were wondering. For her main course ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  more effectively is being missed. I know I signed up for an intellectual ... can’t make the time to. Once an assignment is turned in, I can’t reflect ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  above me won 1st place for an individual game, he was removed from the ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for ... chose. As you can see, the winner hid in an area with extremely few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... People often seem to think that going to an elite school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for ... , for having had time to form friendships and find communities in person ... I’m letting myself be hopeful for the first time in a long while. And

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew ... its way. For now, if you're ever in building 33, stop by the hangar and ... had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... hub of Maine's South Coast region. I was in Maine for three days, so I ... kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... about college was the need for a refined major. In many instances, inside ... school, I realized that you couldn’t just major in medicine, and for a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... , created in an attempt to win dinner with the renowned Professor Eric Lander ... will call this film conjecture, but for me it filled in a lot of blanks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  , guess what country I'm in: Looks like Europe, doesn't it! For a second ... displayed in the center of the cemetery. For your viewing pleasure, the ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... have been working very hard, and dealt well with setbacks. There was an ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  … wait for it….DARY [/annotation] in my family. Every year, without fail, I ... ’m thankful for the opportunity to be home in Michigan for Thanksgiving. I ... (and in how we share the same DNA). My sister Sara for spending hours

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025