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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... because your application was already strong enough to make you a contender

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... recently moved to a new, modernized building with a lot of neat technology ... .[/caption] France and Spain have a lot of influence on Andorra, as is to be expected

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... metal converter to a machine that ran on 10,000 volts. Would the converter ... said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  is written on the application. Leon wrote, "I just have a quick ... January scores on a case-by-case basis. Email [email protected] to make a ... " wrote, "Hi Matt, I have a question about the Sloan school. On U.S New and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  year you're smarter, have money, and have a new addition to your resume ... even available, but it's a quick way to earn some extra cash without ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the ... nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... sweet red beans on top. The Empathy Exams (9783 words). A powerful, moving ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  students have joined a mailing list and Slack channel to work on ideas. I don ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  and took a leave from MIT to become the founding CEO of HelmetHub, which ... 2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... be able to collapse on a Southern Californian beach for a week. But MIT ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... Student Gathering as a student. I tried to impart on the 2021's everything ... note: I found a fun little website I'd like to share with everyone. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically applied to four colleges that had some variation of a Neuropsychology major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by ... approvingly. On a less-traveled path of the prefrosh journey through CPW ... typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  -Lab: surviving on $2 a day - the typical living income for a Third World country ... , takes the principles of D-Lab: Design to a real-world level by showing you to create a plan to distribute a technology or business model

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a ... the intensity without relying on "really"**n, a problem only exacerbated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my first steps on MIT domain as a prefrosh, I actually spent a lot more time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... beeps a couple of times to let me know someone's on the line. I open up a ... had to deal with on a daily basis- they gave me such good stories to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... reverting back to a 24/7 schedule next year. During CPW, there were little

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014