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  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of ... application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length-of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him ... .S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... of a scientist she was until I read the book. Hell, I didn't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don ... , the monkey pressed another button in front of him, but I couldn't tell

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to ... day. I had a lot of friends in this graduating class. It was weird. So

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave ... /Writing Experience We are looking for people who can communicate in a compelling ... commonplace. If you haven't traveled much, put yourself in the role of an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports ... further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... around us. I disagreed, pointing out that the bits of whole peanuts

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... thought I’d give you guys a glimpse into the life of a student-athlete here ... sports teams, and a whopping 25% of students will participate in one during

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  guy took a picture. I stepped out of the crowd and got my camera out in ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... . Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a little darker than my avatar's and when I smile in real life, my face looks like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... means in english." i closed my eyes, unable to continue. ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in there (like only Harvard beat us in yield of mutual admits, not Yale ... years. *Furrows brow in direction of New Haven*

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I ... Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... the relief map of events in my memory. Only two incidents among ... -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  (discussion of all five of my top-5 favorite classes in a future post). Even if ... For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This ... Better Than I Thought It Would Be Bar-Be as the Lady with a Lot of Money ... idea that Mark In Short was in this. The Movie That Makes Me Look like I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... they have a really organized codebase. I won't expose any of their ... week, I start a brief program with D.E. Shaw in their Discovery

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021