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• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be ... . to be honest, at the time, i thought my mit application was pretty ... deferred. but part of me really wanted not to worry about the regular app

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Me, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of ... 'd share the two that I have and do some reflecting on who I used to be ... collectively decided not to compete the next day because we were so emotionally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred ... ." Your application will once again be considered by the committee during ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not

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

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you ... . Watch the videos on how to unpack, wear and re-pack Tim, and guidelines on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  continue to be definitely did not come to me very easily in the beginning but ... responsive and not be afraid to explore. I think some of the people I spoke ... work, not enjoying the city. So that weekend I Ubered to old Hyderabad

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the ... express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... are here. Beyond that, we will not tell you what to write or what not to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  to TAKE THE PLUNGE What does it mean to be an admissions blogger ... to be an MIT student. Note that I say 'write.' Over the years ... for) writing consistently and well tend to be the most compelling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the ... the intro classes (common ones to skip are 18.01, 18.02, and 8.01) will ... Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... Representative Katherine Clark. Now, I'm normally very happy to pick up the phone ... (possibly caffeine-boosted) confidence resolved to finally make the call. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for ... we'll stay 4 weeks ahead to blaze the trail, stomping bugs, talking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  . There will be much more to say about the reading process as November ... cards," don't ask why), but this year, the E-3 cards are not green but rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  leave MIT because it will be better for me? Am I ignoring why I chose MIT ... . But that’s not my life to live anymore. Wouldn’t it be nice, having ... worked, I went to coffee shops, not the libraries. That visit was shorter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  sense of immersion? The lights, sound, and set design tend to be more ... to the point of being unrecognizable, when the failure to be understood ... the emotional continuity between scenes, being able to step out of the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  . Master all the steps to the Cupid Shuffle. You'll be a hit at prom. Go ... prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the ... schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  the probability that the next child of Individuals 1 and 2 will be ... long will the neuron take to reach a membrane potential of -65 mV if the ... prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  mother will likely nag you to learn how to drive the summer between your ... STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  percent on a test at MIT, rest assured that you guys will be the first to ... and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told ... got on this test was not quite as upsetting as me to the staple that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  ? Unfortunately, the answer to all three questions was “Not a lot of things”, but ... ="According to the board documentation, this was also not meant to happen ... now that I’ve taken the class, I get to [annotation note="Turns out FPGA

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  able to go to too many of the excursions because the semesters never fail ... basically a week long immersion in the arts! We did not get to participate in ... high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018