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Painting by number The anti-formula
image generated by pbnify.com In a rant post many years ago, I referenced the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number” applications that could often be appealing at first… -
Blog / About Decisions
To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!
Much is expected. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I… -
Blog / About Decisions
In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...
When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be admitted to the class. Even though… -
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MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
start-up focused on mobile money lending in Africa" Cirque du Soleil -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.
Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In either case, it generally doesn’t matter if it’s… -
Blog / About Decisions
Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem
As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon… -
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 the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Speaking in MITese A language all our own.
. 6 - Delta Psi DU - Delta Upsilon Kappa Sig - Kappa Sigma LCA - Lambda -
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[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them
bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the -
Blog / Academics & Research
6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit
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Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?
small blurbs. I grab a donut for breakfast. I headed to Du -
Blog / Hacks
Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!
bond with Hyrule -- the world they had created. The Goddess Din offered -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Fonts of MIT a typographical tour
the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN ... ="aligncenter" width="1086"] Left: Flama. Right: poster.[/caption] It also isn't FF DIN ... , which is based on DIN. [caption id="attachment_83910" align -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.
included a vocal version of "All You Need Is Love" and "Dragostea Din Tei." No, really, the MIT marching band plays Dragostea Din Tei. As -
Blog / Personal Travel
Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.
to Paris' Gare du Nord lasts nearly three hours, crossing the Channel ... Gustave Eiffel More eye candy: The Notre Dame Cathedral The Musee du ... directly opposite (what else?) Gare du Nord. I'm usually happiest around -
Blog / Athletics
Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym
DuPont gym (which has a huge area for gymnastics and basketball, and ... deposit), and can enter a lottery for a locker in the DuPont locker room. Oh! and I almost forgot to mention that the DuPont locker room has brand new -
Blog / Academics & Research
Une expérimentation de l’indépendance: partie la troisième attention, s'il vous plaît--j'ai une annonce. et aussi, beaucoup de photos.
du secondaire, le 22 février, qui s'appelle "Blueprint." Peut ... blanche du monde, dans laquelle le télescope spatial James-Webb (JWST) s -
Blog / MIT Life
Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…
catchy chorus of "Kannst du mein Monster halten? Kannst du mein Monster halten? Kannst du, kannst du?" (Can you stop my monster?). And images of ... , "Kannst du mein Hunger halten?" (Can you stop my Hunger?) just popped into -
Blog / Admissions
Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.
I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend