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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... reason" why you were deferred, or "what needs to be improved," simply ... 's nothing that I see to be lacking or needing improvement -- most of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  need to do. Some days I'm only on the ice for 40 minutes and rushing back ... ankle the week before, and wasn't sure how much I would be able to perform ... other aspirations here at MIT. But there is much that I still have yet to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  HyAzQ I never expected to play with so much fire during my time at MIT. But ... different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing homes, in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put ... to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life, and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  information on what the customers really need, what they're going to actually ... percent of the research fee Тƒо in advance. To my amazement 12 companies ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... parties, that I happened to find things to study that I enjoyed so much. In ... foot and complaining loudly to everybody how much it hurts but also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  class that's both CI-H and HASS-D in the fall. You need 2 CI-H classes to ... and simple of it: Take as much "advanced courses" as you are able to handle. Before I launch into my rationale, I think it is important to note

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating ... east campus always does. an email to the ec mailing list soon followed ... details. on the renovations itself: ec needs to be renovated. it's no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  turned out, I didn’t need to because I was recently assigned to join the Pi ... ."]middle school.[/annotation]. After these revelations, we knew we needed to find a ... a concept, identify the resources they might need to execute said

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  much jurisdiction over the entire product. If I were to work at any ... program, many people worried I wouldn’t be able to handle an REU and a ... so compelling that one does not bother to question whether the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up ... much reflection. The reason the week sent me buckling to my knees with ... taste of how much time my classes demanded. I could expect to expend

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  flavor so much. And I thought, somehow, I need to tell everyone I’ve ever ... blog came to me first as a tweet, where I wrote this: man once you start ... . I needed to shout this on the mountaintops, voice hoarse but full of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've been to Wellesley once before, and it's beautiful, but I didn't really ... , busy, loud road, so it's pretty much understandable. She does, however ... exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  possessions does not in fact include a room at pika, thanks to technical details ... needed more data. Thus, gentle reader, I implore you to try the following ... Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  ever thought about how you're going to die?" Or, "How much sleep do ... . Words didn't need to be spoken. I run to my next event in McCormick for ... to stare into space and reflect on the weekend, as much as I wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  cj: pushes feet apart wayne: no i mean you need to keep your center of ... how to fall wayne: uh cj: how bad could it be wayne: once someone i ... i have to use so much brain power to walk cami: true cj: okay bye

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  need to make with a certain color. once, i accidentally left a box of ... station. our phone batteries were both under 20%, but we still needed to ... need, but neither of us had the strength to get the lugnuts off the tire

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  practices, a capella rehearsals, study sessions, and much more. Right next to ... Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a strong appeal to emotion (pathos). Sometimes he focuses much more heavily ... pipeline impacts the environment too much to warrant its construction despite

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  $28 to make this a so much more dangerously awesome gift. ... I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012