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  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking ... not worry if your interview report has not yet appeared on your My ... Documents The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the Admissions Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  strictly. My understanding is that MyMIT is counting words like won't and ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... you type directly into the text box on MyMIT, everything should be fine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  when I have a lot of work is also when I most enjoy my relaxation ... had to do, and I started off watching TV and sitting around with my ... busiest vacations in my life -- if it can be called that -- which had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  ” creeps into my typing fingers like an arthritis, and every push of the ... aging a long time ago, but I don't remember what she said because my ... along curling field lines. Perhaps my geriatric expressiveness is a just a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... for my boyfriend on that stage. And the night after, BJ Novak was going ... three years, not giving a second thought to slopping my feet down all over

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Facebook friend requests than personal emails. Also, you kids get off my lawn ... program, has improved my overall standard of living as well as my GDP and average lifespan. My first research group in the Materials Science

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... . (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  beat of silence, and then half the room was crushing my ribs with hugs ... those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... sounds. Except that my description comes nowhere close to describing the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  weekend, you’ll go somewhere to do something fun (my year we went to Cape ... , talent shows (I opened bottles with my mouth as my talent!), and parties ... sailing, swimming, tennis and some other stuff my year). 4) But Milena, isn

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  next four years in favor of concentrating solely on my classes. To my luck, my freshman advisor, Graham Ramsay, didn’t let that happen ... project that entails building my own 8x10 view camera at the Hobby Shop. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  're expecting a really interesting answer like an elephant eating my homework, you ... collaborative learning, which is nice in theory, but what happened in my ... classical mechanics, and even if I somehow figured out how to get around my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... New Jersey so I can join my local EMS during the summer. Plus, it'll be pretty useful for my summer job as a lifeguard. Yesterday's class was long

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though ... home of my friend Andrew. Before I chose to come to MIT, I was nervous that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  of practice each day. it's a lot! Mocha Show in 2020 was one of my last incredible memories of "normal" campus life. my parents and a lot of my friends came to the show to cheer me on, and i was absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... good. I was really happy with my teammates and I found I vibed with them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  college for everyone in America. There really is a school for everybody. My ... , CT): My daughter is 12 and going into seventh grade. My son is 10 and ... way or the other. But my philosophy here is "one step at a time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  ’d major in 6-9 (computation and cognition). I’d done my fair share of ... be to invest all my energy into understanding the “artificial ... could my interests change in such a short period anyway? (Plus, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  I'm two years into my master's program. The first few weeks, I was like, oh my god, everyone is so young. CJ: Well, even if that were true ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... transition and my reasoning behind it, but it’s a little long and a little

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  . Finally, I gather my wits and conclude, Who cares? So, I walk over to where ... asks where I’m from and what my research is about. We talk about pulsars ... . My team is comprised of myself, a graduate student from Georgia Tech

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014