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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  make the choice between enrolling at MIT or one of our similarly

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  achieve those priorities vary just as much. At one institution, the sole ... than the application pool provides. At another institution the priority ... similarly qualified students. At yet another institution, the priority is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  admitted.  In my mind, it makes perfect sense.  It is, at least initially ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... be appealing at first glance, but is woefully short on substance. End

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  increasing the chances that an admissions committee at a highly selective

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  tone and style for being Gamemasters. At some point during website ... actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... actually obsessed with purple which puts us at very opposite ends of the same

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard. When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... - and much, much less expensive. And as long as I shower at the Z Center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate. At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  there was already an admissions website back in 1996. Look at those ... myself looking at dozens of issues over dozens of years, digging through ... efforts were necessary, because at the time, a smaller proportion of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  across College Confidential. At first, it seemed like a rare gem - a unique ... colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers ... independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... will wake up. So, at around 3am, after six snoozes on three different

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... whatever I wanted, I could at least go to Splash and teach about whatever I ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  attend the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston that year. MIT, at that point in ... “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  ’t tell anyone about it. I had looked at the mental health website, but ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... look at my shoes. I was thinking that I was glad that I wasn’t alone, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... discussing it.  Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships at the [annotation note="like microsoft, apple, google"]big tech ... that I'm not very good at Course 6, and as a result, not very good at ... to jobs every year that they are at MIT. Yes, you heard me - that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... mind I must have gained in the past couple of weeks, cringed at some of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... I go. Overview In Searching for legitimacy, we look at compare the histories of Mystery Hunt and comic books. We then look at the narrative and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023