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  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you[/annotation] that we have extended the Regular Action deadline from January 1st to ... ; January 6th is simply the new deadline for everyone applying during this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  This blog is to all the '14's, '15s, '16s+ who are scared after watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as faithfully published here on the blogs by CJ, started freshman fall, when I explored traditional dishes from around the world; and continued through my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange--it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... what subject you are studying. I went through Course 18, to study the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that, despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  college admissions-themed issue -- it is also worth a read. Here's the TIME.com transcript of the Q & A with Dean Marilee Jones: Ever since she first joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

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

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  I know I've practically disappeared off the blogs... BUT I promise I ... at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation ... [/annotation] but that’s a story for another time. The thing I remember most from my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... CollegeHumor. The show has multiple seasons, with each season being a new D&D game with a usually familiar cast, with the occasional guest stars here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this ... considering what I wanted from the team during our elections this Spring. I ... , it was during the pandemic, so we were buying very few things. there

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  it’s been a while since i talked about my life. the east campus house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was ... you when it’s safe again.” i love the ec house team. our move out day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  House Approved^TM lofts"]climb[/annotation] down my bed, throw on the ... again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i ... sentences using the grammar we had just learned. i decided to link my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to them for help and support throughout the year like MIT Together, MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... all the other kids. No, seriously- I remember one time my mom got really ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006