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

  

  on January 1, making the MIT Regular Action deadline 5 hours away. For ... view the preview PDF. There may be some small grace period for ... is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or

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

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  meet and get to know people by playing games. It’s no secret that MIT is not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a ... “jock-y” than I expected. So many students play varsity sports, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  money for travel and then stay at hostels with friends. I made it a point ... It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic ... underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, there's no reason for me to ... thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  Johns Hopkins:"For all the regular decision applicants out there, we ask for your PATIENCE throughout the month of January. Please do not contact ... are inundated with mail and online submissions and it will take nearly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing ... . C: You had an interview and told us so (via the online tracking system

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  hit 12:50 so you can check your bags for your 6:50 flight Play Tetris ... acronym for literally every department"]HRS[/annotation] mandated that we ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  about what song you will play in the background. Settle for something ... that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  online journal for many years as well, but never thought that the idea ... Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference of the New England Association for College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  the standard-issue bookshelf when i moved in, but it did for some reason ... floor but it's nice to know that i could if i wanted to. that's all for ... global fight for freedom--is of growing appeal to many policymakers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  subsequently find an online article, blog, or forum dedicated to the subject that will suggest further directions for investigation or provide an opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all. Earlier today I got an email from Ben Jones that linked to an online ... sticklers, take note of the proper use of quotations for the article's name

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  characters.Signing up for your account will give you storage space (an online ... as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... -do list for the summer.For international students, information from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ? What kind of extra cource work we have to do considering for admission ... , activities, and essays section of the application, I needed more room for a few ... thinking of sending in a DVD of a video I created for my church's Vacation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  the Johnson ice rink so far.    And now, for a montage of games: Tiny Brains, a co-op puzzle game being released for PS4 and Steam. You play as ... . The Videri String Quartet, a local group, played music from the games

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  night for tennis ITAs, playing tennis and cheering for my teammates from 8 ... online readings for whatever I needed to finish my paper by Tuesday 2pm ... Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014