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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... Action deadlines. If some of your application pieces are missing, please ... 're happy to check receipt of items if you allow sufficient time for
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... of Ancient Greece, which is my [annotation note= "CI-H/CI-M classes ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... okay:("]pset cycle.[/annotation] For now, here’s a brief overview of what ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let’s cut right to the chase: THERE’S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya’s already told you about 6C, but I’ll bet it didn’t feature a giant spider on a web! I’ve…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , you receive another wave of information including the i3 videos made by ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  yet by the portrayal of Alex or Jonathan, but that half-second shot of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying ... ’re welcome”s and hurried out of Building 14 towards Walker Memorial, home of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done ... another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF from the tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not ... me broke. Also, falling down multiple flights of stairs probably didn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... was about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school ... - bored. I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke bars, culture spanning thousands of years, and heated toilet seats. This ... ’t worry, ispace didn’t give up there. As part of my internship, I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day, around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018