traditional university experience for people who are interested primarily in ... People often ask me what admissions officers do in the summer. They ... , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions
bubbling in each character. My friend responded, you claim you don't know but ... by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in ... . The narrator's high-status father engages in an affair with her best
several years back when I was in junior high. What do you think occupied ... ? Inspiration comes from people who are passionate about something.
In my opinion ... they love; they share what they love with others in hopes that they
’t tell my colleagues in other departments I said that) department at MIT, and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer Engineering, and in Electrical/Electronics/Communications Engineering. So it was
math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?" I armed myself ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... reaction, there is no force equal in Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
- When
this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of MIT, the No. 1-ranked universityin the nation, according to a ... Elizabeth Lozada was in middle school in El Paso, she remembered hearing about
other university gives you this much housing choice.
I'll be busy in ... ), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the ... , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people
. I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in 2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and
@MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send ... the idea that learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. Learning ... their activities, DSL offers students and the MIT community many
interesting offeringsin this year's Spalsh course catalogue.
Well, a couple of ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it.
Yesterday ... create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of
To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... , and we in college admissions officers reinforce that, they don't get
200hz in the unseen hours of the morning. University faded into universe ... hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes:
10:23 pm: I cough for approximately
, applying to jobs and signing offers and in a few cases going to grad school ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life:
sailing on the charles, noticing how the smallest shifts in seating rock the boat, the
Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing
-grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other selective universities); 2) It seems embarrassing to struggle academically; 3
to :D
In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... professors at the university near home, sent out "cold emails" aka begged
-Off in August (read about Summer Send-Off experience here)).
Prepare for ... universe, and everything with an awesome group of people and free food!
If ... inspired me to then start sorority rush in the fall of freshman year
best place in the universe. As for whether that’ll last, who knows? Maybe ... Daniel M. ’14.
It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood
and soak in all that each and every single moment has to offer. Consider ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you