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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 / Best of the Blogs
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
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… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun
taught a course called 20.219: Becoming the Next Bill Nye, which fellow -
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 -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who
Productions, some need audiovisual services, which we get from MIT AV, some need -
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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 / Art, Literature, Music
last concert
av; 8 wireless mics, a speaker, and a mixer from next sing; 16 wireless ... . then i built my first sound system, connecting the 5 av mics to the av ... needed. for a while we thought we’d need to run the av and next sing sound -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…
[by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out his hand, the first thing that Col Wallen told the Det 365 Air Force ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a proud cadet at Air Force ROTC Det 365 -
Blog / Events
Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!
the Elmer booth, which for some reason was selling Bill Nye the Science Guy toys. "Is Bill Nye here?" Maddie asked. "No, I don't see him, that'd be ridiculous." This is when I notice a sign. "Bill Nye the Science -
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 / Extracurriculars
AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"
most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det -
Blog / MIT Life
A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.
Bill Nye, of all things) as my facebook status. (warning: site is