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  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine’s Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It was fine, but then…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  As promised, an awesome guest entry – written by the wonderful Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika — My name is Stephanie, but mostly I go by stephlin, steph or…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7,…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you’ll find this post lurking near the top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I’ll reproduce the post here: I’m a senior…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines the…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It’s my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I’ve been at MIT, we’ve had some interesting characters pass through the ‘tute – Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga have all made appearances during my time…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  Over the last few weeks I’ve posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In either case, it generally doesn’t matter if it’s…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There’s something I’ve been mulling over in my head for a long time. It’s an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks have made here on the…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from international students. Near the end, someone asked: “Can…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is “am I in the right place?” How do we know when we get there? Exactly…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I’ll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews – HIM: “So where do you go…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a lot easier that I just didn’t find out about until much later. I’ve been thinking about…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011