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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  make the world a better place. We deferred 3,731 applicants. These ... .  We recognize it's a lot of work for all of you to apply to MIT. We ... . We try to do what's best by MIT, and what's best by you. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... infiltrated by the enemy! Caltech students appeared on campus in a crowd - and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , beekeepers and biologists — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was during a normal school week as opposed to during finals week. To illustrate ... through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  Wiesner as a corner to make phone calls, have lunch and leave trash on the ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a ... melt and stick to surfaces after heated. Using a tacking iron, I melt

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... , prompting them to make enough noise so that we could find them. I've found it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  on Microsoft Word to proofread your essay -- you'll want to take a keen ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... if you do have a spelling error? It's certainly not fatal, but it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  flesh out the characters and make them more relatable to a wider audience ... is a really good way to do this. It’s something that makes you stand ... and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I

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

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  zombie that wasn’t very good at being a zombie. I needed to make a change ... failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a ... , and want to blog a bunch! Maybe I have a seasonal writer's block

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This ... graphics are good enough reason to play for a few minutes. Ordinal Markup ... to make your numbers grow to staggeringly huge values, the likes of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  could get a 0%, so people take it upon themselves to make sure that other ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... , is a confusion not supported by my friends Merriam and Webster). Sure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a ... that didn’t have enough substance to make it to a blog but I still don ... ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... many students at MIT. . . not by me. However, since it was a dorm trip ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... of a creative-imagery let-down? To be specific, the car was nearly the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  'd have to make sure I didn't join a frat. You can probably see this plot ... able to connect well, that fragments of personalities blend to make a ... Mindsets Orientation was followed by Rush, a week-long event in which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  a trick to make the kids more comfortable with him, and it was ... a little surprising - to read that Harvard recently awarded him the Q ... rehearsal, as part of the Sistema Side by Side seminario series. A seminario

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  , I got the even stronger itch to make a video. So, last night, I scrambled to film and edit a vlog for—I think—the first time since undergrad ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025