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  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , forcing the attentive student in lecture to sit up quite high, as well as ... faith in the higher-ups to choose the correct chair so I made sure to let ... MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging ... , designers, and models who won awards in this post. If you want to see more ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no

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

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  just prior to an annual event we call the Sodium Drop (I'll leave the details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from ... to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  Association Committee on Student Life is proud to present MIT's second ... Study Abroad programs from England to Australia offer students. Add to ... ever-important ventures into all the diversity the world has to offer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in ... another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I ... to live in a hovel so foul it makes The Road sound like utopia, but

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  @MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that matter, what DSL is), which I wanted to post here. What do you know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, and Steve Martin star in this supposed comedy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  ' stock prices to test a stock's reaction to the event. Other data in this ... It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the ... at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his ... -vehn-se-nup' But given that science likes to redefine itself every so often, it may ... Friday the 25th of August. Winner will get something cool, promise. Ready

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms ... preference to one or two windows, likely the amount of windows in their own ... The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  -legged robot, he returned to the subject in his biweekly "Movie Answer Man ... tissues, but it's always great to see those three letters popping up in ... things, from men to dinosaurs to spiders to centipedes, tend to come in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year before. I decided to do the same thing for all the movies/shows I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things. Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012