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FAQ / First-year application
What should I do if I’m deferred?
If you're deferred during Early Action consideration, you don't need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes -
Blog / Academics & Research
Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester
Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I ... .2060. (Yes, we still do some things on paper at MIT.) A digital oscilloscope -
Blog / Academics & Research
Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards
. After starting a 10 week exchange program at MIT, Edward Tiong and Olivia ... City of Boston and MIT, because, seriously, look at these freaking things ... stuff that MIT helps bring to fruition every day. -
Blog / MIT Life
When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?
does the average MIT student have to watch TV?" Throughout my first two years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol -
Blog / MIT Life
Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.
DID YOU KNOW? The MIT PE Lottery for the fourth quarter starts today. Don't forget, Mitra! I solemnly swear to starr writing entries MIT again soon. But I was thinking today, as I sometimes do, when I am not doing -
Blog / MIT Life
Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.
: The odds of achieving this are a little greater when you attend MIT -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.
During the warmer months, every Friday and Saturday, Haymarket, a farmer’s market near the Government Center T-Stop comes to life. Saturday, my friend Diana and I thought we’d take a… -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Hosts
good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh: n. MIT jargon for prospective student]. It involved many late nights ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed -
Blog / About Decisions
Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…
offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.
ENGLAND IS JUST A TEASE FOR WHATS COMING TONIGHT. SIX TO 12 INCHES IS -
Blog / About Decisions
Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…
Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... amazing thing for me and calculated whether my job is net joy or net sorrow -
Blog / Admissions
You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.
're available; this is mostly for the Regular Action selection committee ... contact you or your school. That being said, it is your responsibility to -
Blog / Admissions
Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.
Happy November 1, Early Action applicants! Today is the day that, if you haven't yet done so, you must click the "Submit" button on your EA ... still finishing, how is it going? -
Blog / Personal Travel
I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.
'm done with! Which is both good and bad. For one thing, it means I won ... entamoeba histolytica! Is this your first time in Europe... oh, wait, can I ... buy books; and if any is left over, I buy food and clothing," which I -
Blog / Admissions
Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.
I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion ... , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…
I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester ... for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm -
Blog / Academics & Research
Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!
aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly -
Blog / Admissions
Decision letters mailed
tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!
. Some of these stores; that is, stores which sold coats, even provided ... metaphor of a post-it-encrusted cubicle? Anything is possible, but the ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a