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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 / Admissions
March Questions Omnibus 2
get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file -
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 / Admissions
Visualize whirled peas
I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film -
Blog / Events
This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)
🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very -
Blog / Classes
contradictions too much, not enough
from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long -
Blog / MIT Life
catching up what are you doing over the summer?
our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t -
Blog / Residential Life
[guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017
in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on -
Blog / Challenges
A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths
For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"
“intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
, or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.
distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when -
Blog / MIT Life
What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt
.[/annotation] That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12