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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  I'm writing this blog post's introduction from an Amtrak train ... York City. I always manage to overheat when I travel, so I'm only wearing two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... things I found: This really pretty poster from 2011. I’m assuming it was ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... admission. So last summer, I posted a thread on CC entitled Reminder: No one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact, I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I ... or even evolving something realistically; I think it is mostly a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I ... somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... get creative with scaling i guess, but that would change their position

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to my parents or friends. Things like "I just got back from my 5

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... of the campus COVID-19 lockdown—I was permitted to visit the office to ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... Nobel thing) asked for a volunteer who had a watch. I had a watch. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating ... actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... this blog post, I use “affirmative action” and “race-conscious admissions ... acknowledge the limitations of these ways we currently count people. However, I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say ... our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It was later lowered and set on fire (I think) on the grass between the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... Random Hall. I once asked a former resident of Random Hall why the milk had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  end.  Instead, I'm essentially directing the presentation ... ;In fact, I'm aiming to not have our presenters use clickers to advance ... presentation spectrum of "conversational" to "showman", I'

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... prompts based on the interviews we did. 1. Once upon a time, I thought I would be [what major? undecided?]. 2. I will be graduating as [what major

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015