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  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... advice and instructions for deferred students on the blogs soon.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand ... civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere ... Chris Peterson's powerful and beautiful Marathon post*, I question

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive. We ... converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... have some additional advice and instructions for deferred students on the

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand ... civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by humans who pushed them like strollers, the Strandbeest walked back and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand ... civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... /No Record basis, and she is allowed to slip. But the lengthy vacation will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don't think many classes let you build and race an elephant... make a ... is well designed and functions flawlessly. It's intense. Our product

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  finished processing all mail and loaded everything into our system. If you have applied to us Regular Action, please log into MyMIT and confirm your ... review partial applications, and we never make admissions decisions unless

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  into a vending machine and received 6 (apparently expensive) slips of ... , and somehow found it. Welcome to Japan! I work at a pharmaceutical lab ... ’t heard of them? Neither did I until I applied to MISTI-Japan and got an

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast. Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they ... cake, deviled eggs, onigiri, and pork stew. The strawberry kiwi punch is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted in EA

  

  incredible and impressive students. For those of you who fall into this ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  midnight.  At 8 pm, they go around and beg for candy from dorm desk workers ... this) But after stuffing our pockets full of Snickers, Crunches, and ... around.  And so we trudged, stomachs full of chocolate and minds full of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012