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  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  million dollars to found Minerva. The latter comes from the long list of ... ) banked over $40 million. Believe it or not when you don't give any of your ... I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  espresso, a million different types of cereal, and peanut butter and jelly ... artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the office each morning and evening. The meat of each day was some combination

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There ... past the rows of viewers. I donned my best cardigan and favorite boots. Underneath my shoes, I concealed the mark of laziness, two mismatched socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  to routinely and regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be ... this summer, there's lots of Pats chat to catch up on. As for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  order to move at all, and most of all, at around 12 million blocks out ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more ... small reminder of the time that’s gone by since i was a little kid

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  undergraduates last year, which was up tens of millions from the pre ... Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  country song to sell over a million copies, Vernon Dalhart’s version of ... ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  a million times. Vincent's post showed some of the worst of what ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  million changes at once?    At the end of the day, the moments that I ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... was about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  who knew the site’s password. This site caused losses of over a million ... Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  winner of a $3 million physics prize. The first thing he said was "I know ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... dusty stripe of stars from Boston. Today, as you probably already know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra semester of "real" mit, and taking way more classes than normal so that i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan dudes kicked lots of people into wells. And then there's this guy: As

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006