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

  

  . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data: over the past decade or so, the average number of deferred students later

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

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  engineering. Solution? Ginny '10 found an invention contest on AbsolutelyNew ... which toys I worked on! I spent a lot of time on action figures for the ... toys that I built, we're having $10,000 worth of development done on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , associate professor of literature, shows in her new book, "Collaborations With ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won ... progression - two emergency vehicles, woot! (I thought of you, Tish.) And second

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  video (among many others)? OK Go has a new video for their song "End Love," and it is directed by two of my MIT classmates, Jeff Lieberman '00 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  of Chanel stores. With four other MIT students, I lived eight weeks on ... ; I compared the impact on US peanut butter sales of two Salmonella ... 've been trying quite a lot of new things, and I thought I'd make a list of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  (which you can enlarge by clicking on them): For much of my life, the ... nice chair out on the deck, enjoying the taste of iced tea and the smell of the salty sea carried on the ocean breeze. I thought about a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  , we’re working on an individual paper about an organization of our ... on Fridays, so it’s also a nice end-of-the-week session because the last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... little about home. As was expected of college students back home on break

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  , working on a project that is looking at the vulnerability of the different ... rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... done on MyMIT. We have hired many of the student editors, and yesterday

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  so Professor Mehta’s talk on the 2600-year history of ... decides on non-academic matters under the guidance of a board of trustees ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  As you probably remember, we are launching the new MITAdmissions ... , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on ...  noble tradition of infinitely long, rambling, nothing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  month, after our first year of having a Maker Portfolio, I gave a talk at World Maker Faire New York about how we admit and empower these kinds of ... We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist until we hear back from everyone. With postmarks on May 2, I don't expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  ; some new ones will be added. We've hired some student "experts" on ... something you do for the pleasure of it." That question, on the MIT ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... , hidden somewhere on the HackMIT homepage, is a series of fun, technical ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  was the monkey that I was, 360ing on monkey bars and cartwheeling off of ... Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019