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College Admissions and the Public Interest
of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did -
Blog / How to Human
Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die
My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the -
Blog / Admissions
How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking
than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student ... by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of -
Blog / Admissions
Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.
, probably more than you realize (ooooo, cryptic). Burton-Conner has all of its ... first day of CPW so they could study. Luckily our test is this coming ... .001 (Mechanics and Materials) test went over like a bag of rocks. Technically, I -
Blog / Admissions
What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.
. I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.
, you slacker." Well, I got tired of being called a slacker every time I ... . It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to -
Blog / Athletics
Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~
, it do be bad now. This form (both of its parts) has a lot of 90 degree ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... (tennis)"]organized sports teams/clubs.[/annotation] This hope of exploring -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…
" degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then -
Blog / About Decisions
On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.
into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as ... years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…
is that there’s a pretty universal handful of questions that all ... terrifyingly untested (and, thus, unpopulated); little clusters of people ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!
life and the universe instead of vector cross products and tumor ... Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals
(and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high -
Blog / Athletics
A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.
third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print -
Blog / Academics & Research
Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.
's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about -
Blog / IAP
The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!
developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach
's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret
and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my -
Blog / Events
Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.
my count) presidents of other colleges and universities - including ... anthem. Alison Richard (Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University), speaking ... Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president -
Blog / MIT Life
They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!
student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means. Basically, many times I feel a lot of pressure. But for the most part, when people find ... of my red hair. It's really strange being away from home and getting