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  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I did eventually find my way out of the tunnels. I'm doing fine. I'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for ... of my strong points. I came to MIT because I wanted to do something

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  so much time to study I faced doing an entire 18.06 (Linear Algebra ... an astronomy outreach program I want to do, when I noticed that it ... you will share your activities with me, I myself love to do astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors ... graduate students (the grad students have to do more pset problems than the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  highways, rolling through well-to-do neighborhoods, tunnels coated in bold ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time ... you do what you want (or have) to do. It's the sort of thing where you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... worthwhile activities a student might do. While many MIT students have ... doing)? And so the winning teams are not necessarily the ones that have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  doing a couple of anxious dances and taking a few deep breaths before I ... ’ve got a bajillion things to do. And today, I will not finish all of them ... think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  't epitomize skillz, I do not know what does. We also learn about biological ... sometimes in life, we have to do things that we may not want to do, but they ... : Documenting Science Through New Media I'm learning how to do legitimate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  . And I do mean very warm. My bike has been sitting out with one handlebar ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... more easily than do those for whom the experience is entirely foreign. If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  thousands of others do it as well, I believe these two bits of advice will do ... , which requires you to know who you are. What do you share? What's most important about the things you do? Which activities mean the most to you? What

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  aren't nearly hot enough." "I agree. What do you say to refining the ... , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very ... helpful song about what to do when the zombie apocalypse comes) by Songs to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  , truffle making, and Perl. You can do all those things you wanted to do ... course of history. It started, as most adventures do, with the hunt for ... ended, as only a small fraction of adventures do, with an igloo.) Since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  't changed is my personal proclivity towards "doing things": whether it ... to talk rather than do. On more than one occasion, I've taken on more ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... 're up tooling all night - nor do we blog about the anguish of failing an ... -renowned scientific training that MIT offers. Yes, we do get stressed out at times, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  taken aback.) "We can do it the hokey way, though..." (starts writing on ... to procreate, because what else is there to do besides eat?" "...also ... harder." (soliciting answers to a question) "I hear one, I hear none. Do I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... brave thing to do.) The simplest answer is we do it because we have to ... Hard Core, but dont pay any attention to them. You shouldn't do things in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  -credit classes that do have tests and homework, but they’re definitely the minority ... do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... . Tell us a bit about your experience as an MIT student. What did you do ... Untravel Media? Do you feel that MIT prepared you well to be an entrepreneur

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  who are experiencing situational financial difficulties. Why do we ... have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do ... process. So what can you do to maximize this relationship and make it work ... GC. Do you even know who your GC is? If not, find out now. Usually

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007