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What should I do if I’m deferred?
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Blog / About Decisions
CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.
approaching, one week from Friday. For those of you who were there, I hope you enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you -
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 / Academics & Research
UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…
: Thursday, Thursday September 15, 2005. Keep in mind that there are three ... http://web.mit.edu/urop/students/mit/awards.html, for example last year I ... UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair
dispatched aggregate of users worldwide, I can easily declare that the entire ... an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I ... Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.
cognitive framework within which we can reason about events and states in the ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking. (I stuck -
Blog / Academics & Research
Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?
. . . " Me: ". . . what!?!" Jon: "Wait, you can't even solve this! I hate math ... -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day -
Blog / Admissions
Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...
your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking -
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 / 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 / Admissions
Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.
app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... anything important happens after the deadline, you can always mail, email or call in any updates. Don't worry if your essay doesn't format as you -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt 2006 announced
Earlier this evening, I received the official email announcing ... exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the -
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 / Academics & Research
Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).
reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months? Small wins build on each other ... . Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!
To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.
you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of ... that in going to college, I had officially left something of myself -
Blog / About Decisions
Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…
only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I'm mostly excited -
Blog / Announcements
Be a Blogger 2021!
For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... pandemic disrupted, but here in Cambridge, vaccination rates are high, and so ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a