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  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  intended to "tap into the demand for an elite American education from the ... 's online format will provide an elite electronic education for those huddled ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  for how fast you can make them, and they can be beautiful too with the ... do the same for others last year. Within the blogger team, Kano, Anika, and Gloria also mentor for Metropolis! It's a pretty good gig. We

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  ? Check out the Livescribe website for more details, but seriously consider ... , I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have ... for so many votes, but in the end it all worked out (I hope!). My prize

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... . I found out later that my mom, after waiting half an hour for me to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one ... placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still ... super excited to start practice for real this year. Once or twice a week ... meeting and find some truly awesome people; that holds true for quizbowl

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the RA process. As you know, the deadline is fast approaching. Most

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement ... -course dinner - appetizer, ribs entree, and dessert - for like $15. Mmmmm

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I ... luckily I regained my composure. My group was awesome and ready for the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  way, we stopped at The Wrap, a local Boston fast food chain which give ... anybody, except for this one Russian film version with a lot of broken ... front of the stage, which was necessary for that crucial scene where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  these blogs and the MIT admissions website. If you register for the ... , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... 't come out for another 9 minutes-- no 8 minutes now. But, out of morbid

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... be god, formless light fed through wire? All I pray for in the next

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or ... time, etc.) The fast-paced nature of MIT makes "big changes" an ... would tell my freshman self to explore more and don't be rigid for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  fast Leaving group needed for it to react Add that nucleophile! [Bridge ... . "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  also wrote some miscellaneous bits such as the about page for the website ... cool it is"]website[/annotation] for the magazine, infinitemagazine ... definition of spread to account for the whole cohesive project/idea that could

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... January 6th, 2021. If you plan to apply to MIT for Regular Action, you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished ... for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a cardboard box under Harvard Bridge for two and a half months, I was offered a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  (a popular website for sharing fiber arts patterns and creations). in ... easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away ... between steps. i still have a lot to do. i have papers for a discussion

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023