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  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students ... working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  finding a place to live. To Craigslist it was. After crossing off hundreds ... /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... a 1,000 mile drive from Colorado to Oregon. Central Oregon is pretty

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... fall visit to a college or university that you are interested in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  before reaching a level of sci-fi hardcore known only to a select few. Next ... how you aren't allowed to do that. -Leave a comment on the blogs that ... things to do, check out a post Jess made a while back. She's better at this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... prospective student said: Hi. Awesome post...Just thought I'd bring a typo to ... you go to MIT? What's bad about MIT? I responded, after taking a moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  was only able to find a job and housing by making lots of negative ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

   into these problems only to find a nonresult is heartbreaking, to put it mildly ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... find with a useless result. The shudder of despair that comes from

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ’d walk along the beach for a stroll, hoping to find one. We did this for more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it’s a real thing) to trying to get to find classes when buildings 26 and ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  like to try new things, you can find a new activity that you love! The ... that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for ... guarantee you that no matter what your interests are, you will be able to find

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to ... minutes each to complete. As you might imagine, particularly at a school ... classes. Now I live a horrifying 15-to-20-minute walk from campus! So far

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn ... 'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... Carter '07, we were able to get into the theatre with enough time to find

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... school students can learn less than or equal to /almost/ anything. It's a ... 't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get

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

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  'm working with in my banner photo, because that actually happens to be a ... summer room at EC, and he also needed to run to Target, Costco, and a few ... becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you ... a million dollars. But instead I'm posting it here because I wanted to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  our best to find you a host that matched your personality, interests ... at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a ... groups, to find that place where you really do fit in. I'm getting excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  . Now that I knew what I had to do, the next step was finding a professor ... researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted ... of a meat locker? What ever happened to energy conservation?), when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin ... 're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008