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My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.
amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall ... only a few hours before the deadline (maybe the site won't crash again ... right? :) (If Ms. Cleary happens to be reading this, um, well, hi. Look -
Blog / Admissions
No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.
different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of other sites. Here are some excerpts from the article, written by staff ... admission. So last summer, I posted a thread on CC entitled Reminder: No one -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!
-so-warm) space heater. (Um, hopefully no one from Housing reads the blogs.) 8 ... this site -- also check out the extremely sexy Flash movies of DNA -
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50 Reflections
admissions site, well below the scroll, but in almost no time they were ... I first saw the job posting, I checked out the MIT Admissions web site ... no road map to follow. I'll be forever grateful for Matt's willingness -
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A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...
: What next—the Station 16 sign? There seems to be no limit to ... reasons, but my favorite reason are the students who are, um: And this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger
...I have no idea what that is. Oddly, as soon as I typed this, my sister ... (paraphrased): .....no. MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology. It ... the MIT admissions site, and I began reading the blogs. Mollie made a -
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An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.
conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at your local grocery store checkout aisle. Function (noun): No list of -
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sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child
could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... a literary agent and published a book. But I found no joy in self ... their own language. But I found no fulfillment in exploiting economic -
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Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS
for the big tech companies are usually on-site interviews, which means ... with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much -
Blog / Academics & Research
bye (for now)
meetings that no longer apply to you. you add your permanent email address to ... going "um, excuse me, but what just happened?" and the rest of my mind is ... natural time for everything and when it passes, there's no point dwelling on -
Blog / Admissions
Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.
email address, so I checked out the site. Turns out it's run by a ... point that it's no longer your work - or, even worse, your voice. So -
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MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy
problem sets no doubt carefully engineered in some underground pain ... amused. “Yes, um, this is the wrong way.” He helped with the bags, led me -
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Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.
Snively!? Well thought out answer: No, I prefer to take an observatory role ... landing sites. Hacks generally appear overnight since actually putting a ... hack, postering the admissions site and the MIT homepage with them -
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The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.
the idea (nobody really likes them that much, right?). No worries though ... major delays to the site that you guys are. Also, I just did a measure of ... . Obviously, I had no way of knowing this, but kudos to y'all. MIT did help a -
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On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.
Pythagorean Theorem is difficult when you have no idea how to square, or take ... itself now?” Senior: “No.” Me: “So what do we have to do?” Senior: “Divide ... ?” Me: “DIVIDED by.” Senior: “Um…three?” Me: “Don’t just guess. Think -
Blog / About Decisions
Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.
Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... meant no more having to lug buckets/backpacks/tote bags/suitcases (yes ... straight, with another 7 days of committee ahead (no - no breaks for weekends -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.
identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don ... always no. (You can direct that stuff to admissions at mit dot edu.) 5 ... to help the waiting suck less? No, probably not. If you ask this, we -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.
with no end in sight. That nagging, hopeful feeling that you’re so close ... shook his head. “Not even close. No one drowns in my pool. Good job.” Good ... with my, um, “skills”. Earlier on, I mentioned grandiosely The Failure -
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Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.
hugs from Nance). But if you were here, you'd see that there was no ... long: 9:30 AM: Wake up, particularly early because no class until 12 ... finished. Head home to crash immediately. 3:34 AM: Quick email check. No