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  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  after they've been deferred, right?" Not true. We need to look ... working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to ... new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  fraction. And our institute often works with foreign research institutes. I ... way. That life is not constrained to the way it currently is in our ... , not by setting hard limitations (as suggested in "1984" but

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it ... really cool t-shirts*. I'd like to go, but if there's somebody who is not leaning towards MIT, I don't want to take their spot" * I do not think this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off ... mid-March); the final term is projects (not lecture, as far as I'm concerned) and exams (also not lecture). So, that's about 160 hours of lecture

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give ... bathrooms do not have locks on them 3) Yes, two people may very well be ... are coed as well, but again, nobody cares. It's not like somebody

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  revolution. **Aside II: It was even submitted to reddit.com, and no, not by me, not even by an MIT person. In the end the lottery granted me 24 ... 's movie. We're not required to stay for the movies since they usually run

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  MIT blogger, I would not post as sparsely as a Donald Trump's hair. I ... 's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of ... of MIT EMTs to come work the aid stations through the chief of our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that ... many students at MIT. . . not by me. However, since it was a dorm trip ... , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  , and what not to expect. Your host: A team of admissions staff and MIT ... Harmony. If you find that you and your host are not a good match, don't suffer ... tooling, of students working on problem sets. For sure, it will be happening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only ... comfortable a cape would be if it had to pass through your mouth. Probably not ... loves you guys. They constantly are worrying about how not to be unfair to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  it sufficiently. Whether you learn this or not, you most likely will be ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... . Go abroad -- You can go to study, to work, to do public service, to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  painful, Marilee Jones recalls. Not because of anything her daughter Nora ... different. Parents did not do any better. Overly aggressive, they monopolized ... might not be enough. And she has a point. "This is sort of the peak of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  around dissolved into laughter describing how Meara actually lived not just ... website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove to help "chronically messy" individuals around the work survive their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to ... day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS ... their actual names, too, but that's just because they're not as important

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  , despite having high ceilings and marble staircases, apparently had not been ... incorporate more severed mannequins into this piece. But not all modern art ... artist Raynaud's favorite works. Well, I think they're pretty cool, too. In

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... 's Island" theme song. 2. George F. Handel's middle name was not "Frederick ... classes, this was yoga for real people, not yoga for MIT students, and let

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  " at MIT, which would be a B average here (because we work on a 5.0 scale ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book. * The movie is not shot on MIT campus at all. Most of the "in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  technologies do not work in isolation -- In the 2016 election, 2.2 million Black ... boston, talked about her work on boston's first ever resilience strategy. she also talked about how racism is complex and systematic; it's not a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  the flight was not cancelled. the guy working the front counters (plural ... shed: not yet People punched: thankfully none   4:15pm (etd 6 ... the hour i was not posting, i went out to the presecurity area to find

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  worked with Nathan Landman, an MEng student from my UROP group. We wanted to work on something that would tie into our research, which, unlike a ... , this is not a trivial problem. For instance, imagine the variety of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018