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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... , surely this is kismet.  Because the only thing we love more than formulas ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to ... . He stops before the resurrection, in the in-between. It is not Easter ... concert. I tell her that the reason for the concert is not the lunar eclipse

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  another soul for sale, oh well The page is out of print, we are not ... Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... ? Because you're not like the others. You're not a pretender, you're the real

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  . All clear? Just in case it's not, let's explain... So, the goal is to ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... and the experiences you have had. A student who has not taken calculus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  - the better! 6. Being a doctor is not a "fallback career." I truly ... ...I like studying the "philosophy" of science, not so much the nitty ... slightly above the MIT Accepted Mean (36 vs. 35), and my GPA is slightly

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  not only your experiment, but also the lives of millions of bacteria ... training and consulting services company. Here is the official course ... shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  something that one is not, is destined for failure. Why then, would the ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

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

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not include any information about the interview, which is another ... believe that they are not on the level, it is always best practices on the ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the ... not have meaningful lives, which is surely false.⁠ I think one of the ... likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... protest is being held, explicitly or implicitly, over the heads of our ... humankind. This conviction is nothing new. In 1949, the Lewis Report, which

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  communities they work with. This is not to say that the individuals recognized ... -tech: its tool is not technological wizardry but images and the written word ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... account for its decision-making. The radiator is described not only as a ... personal equation of the occupant of the room, is not guaranteed in advance

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  office, is emphatically not to admit the "best students" to MIT, but rather ... Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not ... worked my ass off (at the cost of sleep - not recommended). Calculus was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  say the least. The reality is that the college application process is ... see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  is the start of my senior summer, I am twenty, and I am alone, but not ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... pounding away, what happens next— Breathe. Let's start again. It is the end

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  them, but that's not the point. Well, actually, it kind of is the point ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not ... life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008