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  More on deferrals

  

  ." Your application will once again be considered by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications. We will admit the best applications we can during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... historical, transcultural, and methodological perspectives. Examines the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  A few weeks ago I did an interview with the Raising Problem Solvers podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... more familiarity with the notation and subject. Sadly, classes here tend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  , at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the ... places: TYPICAL DAY AT MIT (SPRING 2007) 9am - 10am Hit the snooze button 5 times. Hit the snooze button one more time after deciding to skip

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... housemasters' dogs (confession: I'm not entirely sure whether the dogs have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! 2016 has been shuttered into the past, and the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for building a career out of her true passions, even though the road hasn’t been ... ) and 21S (Humanities and Science) are the joint majors; they’re the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  questions asked in the past two blog entries. Any questions from earlier entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and ... : "Perhaps it's been posted and I've missed it... What's the deadline for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about ... situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here ... practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the ... classmates played the pieces. MIND BLOWN. I had no idea a flute could sound so

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO ... have noticed that it was advertising the MIT Coal Study, an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  everyone else due to the simple fact that flights were cheaper today rather ... delayed by 6 hours and am instead sitting on my couch, watching the time ... to the boy I thought was the love of my life, or goodbye to the boy I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions.org. Although we are two separate offices, we report to the same Dean (that would ... Upstatement, the agency that helped design the new www.mit.edu and science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... . Apparently, a local radio station was holding an end-of-summer concert at the Hatch Shell on the Boston Esplanade - across the river from MIT. As soon

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  you know what I mean when I say that I was kind of like the walking dead when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  This past week was the first week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025