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• 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

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  offbeat for kids’ movies” sir isaac newton vs bill nye epic rap battle

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  some colloquially refer to as the duKor-Jackson scale, even though my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities,…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  DPH: Discover PreHealth DU: Discover UROP FAP: Freshman Arts Program

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  Becoming the Next Bill Nye (I wrote about it in more detail in a post last

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  .219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a

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

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come from prospective students.  Interestingly, and perhaps not surprisingly,…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  -eyed David duKor-Jackson, March 13, 2012: To whom much is given... Lydia K

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered admission, there is a…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  , but here's another video with Jacob's act, at the Festival Mondial du

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  terms of Vegas elegance. We saw Cirque du Soleil's "O" (the one with the 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  theatre called "Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight". emilie du châtelet was a french physicist and philosopher who is generally

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Messaien's glorious, transcendent "Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... everybody in the world using the formal "Sie" rather than the informal "du

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  (outside of watching Bill Nye reruns, of course). *In all seriousness, one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the country and around the world. Spending…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There are these two young fish swimming along and they…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  My entire professional life has revolved around education and college admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition from an entirely paper-based process (featuring typed or hand-written…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020