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• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  might want to be thinking about: If you haven't yet done so, set up a My ... MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we understand that we can't be everywhere!] Even if you are applying elsewhere via

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  hasn't even arrived yet. Please do not harass your teachers or counselors if you don't yet see a recommendation on the application ... 't push it. Don't worry if your essay doesn't format as you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  expectation — remember that most students don't have resumes or other things ... extremely diverse interests — and we don't value one type of activity over another. You don't need to have pulled a child from a burning building or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  aren't all nice) - Parts can be a nuisance to replace Now to my own ... like me, you really don't need a computer. Athena has got most of the ... my number of distractions. The bad: I wasn't distracted. (Sometimes

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  conversation I had with my grandpa before I left for MIT: Gramps: "Now don't be a hermit." Me: "I won't." Gramps: "I don't want any great ... students, it's not hard to meet new people. With dating and the like, I don't

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  about life here: Hard work pays off. It really does. Things don't just fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... experience here, we students don't like that attitude. One way or another you

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  past Monday morning much to my delight. Originally, I kinda didn't take ... , and needless to sasy the project wasn't all about typesetting some ... mass of the frustum, etc. I can't even begin to describe what joy it

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't ... applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and ... app and tell you individually why you didn't get in? Unfortunately, no

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  students during early action. While I don't have final numbers for this year ... were some applications I couldn't believe we had to defer. I fully expect ... deferred applications we'll admit during regular action, though, and we don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  don’t have housing yet! What if we don’t find housing? What if your ... essay isn’t bad, it just needs work. Anxiety: … Anxiety: You’re a ... an essay, I guess. Anxiety: You get picks for lots of things you aren’t

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  realized it didn't quite fall properly. So, I encourage everyone reading this ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... so long I can't help but ask myself: Why do I still feel this way? I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  the past month I've been here. "I am smart and capable and ready." I don't ... Music"](8.01, 18.01A, 3.091, and 21M.011)[/annotation] but I didn't ... didn't enter MIT thinking I was going to immediately thrive or pass all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that ... exaggeration of otherwise satisfactory results. I wasn't prepared for the amount

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... I didn't say there wasn't any homework. Every week, several GEL ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't ... over now. I believe RSI is started up but I don't actually know how to ... isn't made any better by my work hours, the second thing that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... at DDR. (Nicole was wearing an awesome shirt that said, "I can't dance

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  . that have happened after you submitted your application). Don’t feel ... ’re sitting there confused, about to call the Admissions office, don’t worry ... below first. If you can’t find an answer here, leave a comment or feel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can't entirely control, and you shouldn't base your self worth on that either. Don't

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016