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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 ... includes a text box for you to update us on anything important that has ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on

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

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... to Boston. A whirlwind trip, no doubt! Hopefully I'll see some of you ... account - feel free to follow me @MikeyMIT. So far it's been mostly text

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... were you not able to accomplish? I wanted to focus a lot more on my ... . Navigating new friendship dynamics and coming back to a fall semester that was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno.'" Now the Bruno, like the Smoot, is a uniquely MIT unit of measure. Brush up on some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach ... to click on that link.) I taught two classes: Intro to HTML, which I ... Edgerton, the Edgerton Center has a lot of stuff going on. But first things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit.org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... disappointed, are remaining upbeat, continuing to work on other applications, and

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

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor ... few new ones. A dinner party to celebrate how far we'd all come since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... to call out BS, animated by an earnest belief that there is a truth out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  couldn’t locate Tibet on a map. It seems comical, even absurd, that people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done ... part of the tradition however was starting a puzzle on New Year's Eve and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV.) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... , and now I was forcing myself to chart a new course. Interestingly, I ... it seems like my instinct to explore a new career was a good one

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  2006! :-) B. P.S. A big thanks to Timur for the Santa Banners on Matt ... all a wonderful holiday season and a safe & fun New Year's! (I ... I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  treated disorders to establish a system of continuing care while on campus ... on campus and beginning as a staff member; many of us were deeply ... , but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  people to apply to a program and stay there, or why none of our websites ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018