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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  worms spilled over when I stumbled over the following twitch ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was ... motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... = 11.514)[/caption] I arrived at 2 East when they had just reached the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 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 ... great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2.004 exam that i am so, so not prepared for that i really shouldn’t be writing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  's admitted students was comprised of 48% women.  [annotation note='recently, I ... the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study materials science and engineering. But I'm writing this post about anxiety

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... why squares A and B are the SAME COLOR - I still think it's all a big ... Saturday overnight shift on the ambulance, I've barely had any time to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this, knowing I'd be going down another history research rabbit hole. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... opinion from there. I say this because current students develop over time a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  friends that they met over CPW!! I wish I met more people over cpw :( N: Whenever I went to events it felt like EVERYONE already knew each other, but ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• 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 ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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