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  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  last month. here's an excerpt: How do you know if you have a moral ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... .013: Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design Lab. Instead of doing a ... majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... .) Unless you are a total academic rockstar and/or you do not need sleep, you probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... to do? A question my ex-boyfriend used to ask me back when he was having difficulty choosing a major was "How do you know you want to do all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem ... do a better job of slowing down time than they did, and i fully intend ... arguments of the form you Should have a kid to do your part in continuing the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  first weekend in a while that I felt like I didn’t do anything. Friday ... ’m taking. And I think this is pretty clearly a sign that I’m doing a lot. I ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  ="89479" image5="89478" image6="89477" /] P.S.: Why do I look like I'm giving a ... This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  of a premed when you're doing X, but someone you know is (probably ... it turns out, I wasn't doing bad at all; I was on a good trend ... and research med schools." I feel a lot more ready for what I want to do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap ... student had "tasted a whole worm" (wasted a whole term); our Lord was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  UROP lab for a few hours and then do some coding for 6.370, a java ... midshipmen with time commitments. While my Navy commitments do take a ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  costs a lot to hire the technicians who do this counting, meaning that ... : given a problem, what data do you need to solve it, and how do you construct that dataset? How do you account for—a big problem in ecology

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A ... yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... ... The MIT admissions blogs are, as a whole, supposed to convey a diverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... world pushes me to do. Despite the fear and the nervousness, I do have a ... write a lot more and and and I just have a lot of things I want to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  context of a human rights-related field, doing mostly national-level and ... /glass/gemstone jewelry as a hobby, and I do a lot of activism. I learned a decent amount of ... to do with my major. But I still think that MIT played a pretty big

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... MIT has to offer, things can and do go wrong.  It’s a law that holds ... suddenly makes sense.  You'll get this a lot from doing PSets.  Those moments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . the challenge is doing so in a way that isn’t confining or prescriptive ... listen to and probably do a good job of optimizing my life with respect to its value system, but that feels like doing myself a disservice. i have

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  . I'll be doing a later post this week on everything I've read, listened ... pretty on/off with it this fall since i was sick a lot. i'm currently doing ... will do a huge blog on that once Raymond and I's housing is finalized

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  dish, folks doing impressions of upperclassmen, and we just finished a ... scavenger hunt! What’s that, you may ask? Well, Tetazoo is a floor in East Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019