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  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, and

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  and never look back. If you want to talk to us in the comments below, we

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... was pleasantly surprised to be around 4th row in GA pit for 5sos. I ... wasn't in San Francisco proper, it was in Concord). COIN - Sept. 23, 2022

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  about east side culture. i cared that undergrads could paint murals in their dorm hallways and build rollercoasters in their courtyards and get ... did years ago when he lived in floorpi. i tell him about how the culture

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... Chinese American narrator figuring out her queerness in the setting of 1950 ... very heavy and likely best consumed in multiple sittings rather than one

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... there are only so many hours in a day, and physical exercise just isn't a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... are there. Next we have "apple," and what I presume to be "apple" in symbols, and then something I likely used in a python assignment? Hm. I have

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time ... 'd done in many months. i wasn't sure what to do—i always prioritized ... with my free time. i hadn't done anything creative in ages, and i never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the literal sense, where "being productive" means "producing things". in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... answers in order to find a new answer. A large puzzlehunt like the Mystery

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those ... off-guard was in that moment I finally realized everything I learned

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... yourself and the people around you. We’re all in this thing together, and we

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in ... ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  Back in July, when the Institvte first accidentally leaked their ... will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  ="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  extremely[annotation note='(adj.) bogged down in work. comes from the phrase ... between the courses you're interested in and major requirements. At MIT, a ... 36 units, tuition is the same no matter what; in general, most students

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  's that** In the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko, the show’s main ... build a simple, happy life in the Earth Kingdom.  The visual and ... , fundamental level. Just as the body fights infection, Zuko is engaged in a

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020