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What should I do if I’m deferred?
your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in
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Blog / Academics & Research
LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.
I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.) -
Blog / Academics & Research
David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…
project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... polymers that can kill cancer cells. Berry may not know the exact ingredients in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it -
Blog / Admissions
Selection = Finished Wow.
the 17th (but until I confirm that, it's not set in stone - after the EA mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to ... people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
can describe, in 250 words or fewer, any extenuating circumstances that ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!
for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the ... .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 -
FAQ / International applicants
Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?
international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which -
Blog / Personal Travel
Leaving home…
years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the ... resilient. I snapped out of pondering in a couple of minutes and quickly ... [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still -
Blog / MIT Life
A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious
Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really -
Blog / MIT Life
Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."
to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator -
Blog / Admissions
Doogie Howser, et al.
successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in ... blindfolded? Can they go a whole night speaking only in palindromes? These ... "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply -
Blog / MIT Life
Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.
simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my ... Portland, and I exited the train in a nervous hurry thinking I was going to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.
Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at -
Blog / IAP
a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that
the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!
Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the -
Blog / Admissions
The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13
, I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…
with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive If you're interested in -
Blog / Miscellaneous
World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.
was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... Street, the North End's main drag, had to be closed to traffic. You can see ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine -
Blog / Events
The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.
I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in