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  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  Admissions officer available to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure ... If you’re wanting to apply Early Action (EA) to MIT this year but ... disasters, know that our hearts go out to you from MIT Admissions. It

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the ... 's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  a hotel, add two practices a day, access to a hot tub and a television ... dolphins. After a tumultuous journey home due to bad weather in Philadelphia ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  are as a person and a student. Applicants are expected to contact their ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application, essays, standardized tests and teacher recommendation letters (not to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  to call out BS, animated by an earnest belief that there is a truth out ... like I was developing a sense of myself. That fall, I applied to a bunch ... in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a ... back to California for a highly anticipated return home. I hadn’t had the ... yet to see whether or not grad school is a potential consideration. As

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  , which isn’t at all a surprise to me. I spent 191 hours , which is 11 ... to them a lot during the hectic, unfamiliar first few weeks at MIT, and ... when familiar stories help me get through change. If I had to pick a non

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... sad), so a few MITWE members tried to get Ken Amis (our assistant ... lobby to receive a Brazilian tattoo… temporary, of course, and sanctioned

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  regret. i've been trying to tackle my classes with a new perspective ... [annotation note="8.01 = Physics 1 18.01A = Calculus 1 3.091 = Intro to Solid State Chemistry 21M.011 = Intro to Western Music"]8.01, 18.01A, 3.091, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a ... youth, veterans, and communities as a whole with resources to become self ... I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  thermos) and what to leave behind (record player, books, a little cactus I ... be quite as effective a happy-maker as I usually like to think it is. So here they are. My survival techniques. I plan to test them, and as a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... lucky to live in a city that had 24/7-accessible rental cars. We were ... This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  process trying hard to impress a group of skeptical judges with your ... , working at MITAdmissions is more than a job: it's a commitment to compassion ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  metabolomic data (two huge data sets with a lot of unknowns), I can start to ... endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... pancake I made to look like a turkey   lemon zest shortbreadá la ... homemade tamales, traditional Ethiopian food, sushi, and a Chinese New Year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015