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Blog / Admissions
College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior
forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.
orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... --his high school math teacher dated Amber Brkich. That was kind of exciting -
Blog / MIT Life
Some summer pictures
Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... -relevant because, even though I found and applied for the internship myself, the fact ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of -
Blog / Events
Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art
men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street. I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan -
Blog / Athletics
The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.
. (Disclaimer: These photos are in no way intended to discourage you from applying to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the -
Blog / Admissions
More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.
Answers to some more of the common questions ... . ------------------------------------- What if I don't meet today's deadline? All admitted students who apply ... , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The -
Blog / Summer
The Summer Before College (what not to do)
Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite -
Blog / About Decisions
In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine
following quote: One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the -
Blog / Admissions
Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?
You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course -
Blog / MIT Life
Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…
travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Belonging Who belongs at MIT?
going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I -
Blog / MIT Life
A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.
example, my field of study, computer science, is centered around developing ... Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu -
Blog / Miscellaneous
From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.
Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about ... , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Zuber may have figured out why the moon has a funny shape. [NYT] [Science -
Blog / Events
PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…
"vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of -
Blog / MISTI
Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.
long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So apparently, every hour today, MISTI which stands for MIT International Science ... can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy -
Blog / Academics & Research
Advising and freshman formalities
of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... time was had by all. I invited a fellow who is actually an alumnus of my ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a -
Blog / Events
Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.
, they seemed to have trouble deciding which side of the hallway offered ... was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.
I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to -
Blog / Academics & Research
11.125 educating myself on education
-college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and ... , standards in math and science, student misconceptions, methods of instruction ... Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester