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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... admitted students can enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to ... to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  admirably ambitious - it was a pleasure to meet you :) The RA telethon will ... have to sacrifice a couple of your weekend plans. It's entirely feasible ... to CPW if you can! It played a huge role last year in my final decision

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... floor and wander around until you find a door with a multicolored

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the ... , which are similar to floats, contain seltzer, milk, syrup, and a scoop

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... the average scores. That class convinced me I wasn't meant to be a CS major. Yet here I am, choosing to pursue a CMS/6-3 double major. Part of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call admissions to find out The Reason why I was deferred? If you call ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call admissions to find out The Reason why I was deferred? If you call ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  comes down to a really, really tough question: “Chinese food, Thai, or ... lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don ... thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  to give bad news to so many students, but it's a reality that we all ... , and hope for the best. As the year draws to a close, start talking with ... If you are applying to MIT this year (early or regular), here's an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  . Tuesdays used to be a glorious time. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Gates lobby ... ) If you’re willing to make the trek, you can buy produce for a huge ... always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  portrays MIT in a way that is familiar to students past and present, and yet ... promised to engineer a better world. This film asks a simple question: Have ... Normalisation, created by BBC journalist Adam Curtis. While on a gap year due to COVID-19

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... arms stretched, to welcome you into a new and exciting world. --- Katie

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  Ethiopia to the United States a few years before I was born, so their entire ... bags (I think I was still young enough to share a suitcase with Raiye ... ’d-bronze way. I remember a long hallway that seemed to go on and on. I remember

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Quest IX as a kid and finding it hard.) I want to put on the record that I ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find ... overwhelming enough to require a guide. (Looking at you, The Prestige Tree.) My

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  , felt the air a little bit, and can't find the joy of core classes under ... reliable. I want to see it through on an international level (better learn a ... courage to wheel this cushy cloth seat out of here and replace it with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab ... to help students who didn't understand as well.) So just being a good

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  of the trade that you'll just have to become a hacker to find out ... Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in childbirth would be said to have been taken by the fairies to nurse a fairy ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... amongst bloggers that HASSes are underrated. It’s a great change of pace to have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022