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  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  early? No, not really. Other than the fact that if you are deferred you ... ," right? Wrong. Early Decision, different than Early Action, is not offered ... people, to decide whether you want to come or not. Again, there is no

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game studio...connecting the dots yet? i actually had a wild ride with e3 ... started work, i woke up to an email in my inbox saying that my e3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  , working myself into a bit of a situation not only with this Vista business ... everything and reformatting. Isn't there another way? Afraid not. I went back ... worth of rare and pirated software? Not easy to part with. A chainsaw

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  people something meaningful? Not-infrequently I get asked “what should I do ... would work for you, because you are an inherently different person from me ... questions to gauge whether the advice I give will be helpful to someone or not

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone ... . Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission addressed to the Henry County High School senior. Once Gillespie got over his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips ... , why would you not go? If you haven't yet read either of Andi '25's ... this by bribing us with things we would otherwise not be able to afford

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  US-only section, the "Self-Reported Course Work", does not even appear ... (and especially MIT) it works differently and scores are not all. So that ... international Applicant, and therefore am not to fill out the "Mid-Year Grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  more. it never works as well as i want it to. it's not like homework ... mechanics. it's not that i don't want these things any more, but i don't care ... funding to throw parties at not-frats every week. i cared that east campus

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  in mind, there are adventurous ice cream flavors that I feel do work ... ? Bryan: Wasabi-Ginger. Brian: That is NOT an ice cream flavor. I think he ... which it did not. And Monday, July 4th, deserves it's own entry, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  account will work. Director of Student Financial Aid, Daniel Barkowitz, will address these issues and more, as well as answer your questions. Four ... environment in which they work and study together. Find out about the many ways

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  ’re me, [annotation note="not that you need quiz bowl experience to enjoy ... this information in the first place? Probably not! But now you know ... as possible. The more paths you find, the more points you earn. When I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not ... doesn't matter. *gasp*! MIT, not matter?! Now don't get me wrong, I ... application, but an important thing to remember is that MIT is not the only

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  least 2 different states (probably more) have not received their tubes ... automatically be deferred? Not necessarily if there was enough in the application ... " where people fake email addresses or hack into friends' accounts. Marilee

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

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  . If you haven't been contacted yet, email cpw-hosting [at] mit [dot] edu ... ) "I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and ... the free food DO NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING (if you do you are doing CPW

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... . Thankfully though, I had just enough exposure at home to find myself not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not ... before. I felt lost and unhappy, wondering if I truly did not belong here ... thoroughly believed that I just could not learn the content deeply, no matter

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  for beginners. Not only do they work to put on a big show each semester ... just too late now. But wait, prefrosh! Eighteen’s not that old. Not really. It only seems old because that’s how old you are

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  wearied mind. A place where residents are not afraid to look the creatures ... ’s not that they didn’t care, but they couldn’t grasp this feeling of pure ... talk to my GRT’s about it, at 2AM when I should have been doing work. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  is probably not worth ten billion dollars, so it would be better for me ... value of not letting them down; there was the feeling of being young and ... a man trying to undermine the experiences of a woman and not being

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... of the box away, trying not to look so that we see the puzzle come ... Part I is like the border. That's where you tell us your name, address

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010