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• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  in each section. Anurag asked: "I was wondering why does MIT, with its ... applicants? If not, then what purpose does this serve? [...] If MIT is my first ... applied previously to MIT does not by itself impact your admission. It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  to you? Does the work in your portfolio help us better understand your fit with the MIT community? Does the work featured in your ... . What if I like to sing stuff/build stuff/draw stuff just for fun? Does

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a ... . Good enough that I ate it for two days. Does it look good? No, but who ... . Ground beef, and peas, and rice. Does the recipe have a name? Nope. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  has trouble understanding what one does on a vacation to the beach.) No ... and gets told "Design something that does x", and so that's what he does. And if he says, "I designed this thing that does x better than the last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  this case) and the applicant really does want an interview, we will make ... it." We don't need "proof" but it does sound like that letter would be ... semester grades since the semester does not end until the end of January

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  'd like to ask: if somebody does not give an interview does it reduce his ... mail. The situation you describe does not sound credible for regular ... journal gaurentee admission" The short answer is, no, it does not. For a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  even does? I split my results into two parts. This post is Part I, which ... three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who ... on average? How much does a character tend to say? What does this say

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  other questions, as always, please feel free to ask. Does it cost extra ... muscle. It does cost extra money to stay in the dorms over the summer. Where does one buy MIT textboooks? The Coop definitely sells textbooks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  of the day starting to pack. I had saved all my cardboard boxes from ... reconstructing them from their flattened state. For anyone who didn't save all ... Halal Guys. I ate a bit of it, but mostly saved it so I could share it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  something. what does it mean to create something, what does it mean to live a life, and what does it mean to say that you have done so well? these are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  ), the exhibit does a really good job of pacing the paintings and providing ... mustn't know either. Where does the deep and philosophically valid Dali being, and where does the bizarre and preposterous Dali end?" This kinda

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  the question—the question is,  How does one become WIDE?  At first, I ... what does it mean to be WIDE?  “Wide Tim”, perhaps, isn’t just wide! I ... ?  Actually, what does it even mean to be WIDE?  To be totally honest, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  does it know that a typical non-MIT person wouldn’t? “How many windows does Simmons Hall have?” Ouch, ok. Just kidding, that wasn’t the actual answer that Bard gave. Simmons does indeed have 5538 windows (we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  transportation exists. The Caltrain exists, so does BART, and a dozen other ... like it's the same people with different names. Does that mean the world, at large, is more like MIT than I thought it'd be? Or does that mean

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  boyfriend, who does not have blue eyes but does have dark hair.  Since we ... wish most for a society where dating as a person of color does not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  humorous, but this verse does strike me. counseling is weird, in some sense ... comforting, but sometimes it does weird me out. these past few weeks a lot of ... ? is the point to make me feel normal? what does normal even mean, if for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... Gwendolyn’s hair be up or down? Does each actor fully understand their ... does a number do when it wants to be a picture?" - Dan Dietz

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  viewer does interact with the exhibit since they input extra heat into the ... down. The MIT exhibit does focus primarily on his earlier work, so I ... 21M.A12 Does. Good luck to all you EA applicants! I was in your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  finishing my critically acclaimed (what does that even mean?) fork, I decided ... , yet. Anyway, what does this all come down to? The reason I enjoyed ... getting by on a netbook since, an Eee PC does not make for a good primary

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my spring term schedule terrify me so much? Since when does the prospect of taking my beloved 5.12 make me want to crawl in bed and hide? Why does

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007