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Blog / MIT Life
The summer begins…
and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels ... this weekend to explore some of Europe by rail, and I promise to post -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist
I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!
I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to post about this week. That will change next week when I post pictures ... - it's an awesome collection of clarifications & advice for first -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Hosts
good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few ... the available hosts, and ultimately we were happy with all of the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.
catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications ... been answered at the end of it.) -
Blog / Admissions
Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…
't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the -
Blog / Admissions
Selection Day 2
With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... summaries of your applications, and now we take those summaries and work from them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I -
Blog / Admissions
Selection
Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
last concert
the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much ... years of my time in college of course 5 mics wasn’t enough, so we also -
Blog / Challenges
i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid
It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of -
Blog / Challenges
dont want to write ah
's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i -
Blog / Challenges
I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to
bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my -
Blog / Advice
You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application
virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least ... guidance. While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo
without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it -
Blog / Challenges
speculation also a post about touching grass
questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... some truth to both of those explanations, but i think another relevant factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a -
Blog / Academics & Research
aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop
cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing -
Blog / Summer
tiny living when life gives you lemons...
Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... giant glass door with a nonzero possibility of falling on you and -
Blog / People & Identities
another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now
post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of ... arrived and was consumed with great enjoyment. Enjoy this picture of my