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  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... before I go into it. In short, I worked for a STEM nonprofit and the Biden ... justice to how profound and enriched that time in life was.  A year after

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... schedule Next in my planner you'll find a page for each month of the semester

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the ... your town, and its relation to resources often found in larger cities ... it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... "]CMS students.[/annotation] Petey's leading it! i have to read around 60 pages a ... getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time ... since then as quickly as possible. To see what’s missing, log in to your ... Components If your Evaluation A or B is missing, click the link to check

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... converting the numbers to Roman numerals. I'll be frank: never in a bajillion ... You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  hire short-term workers to work part-time and live in the hostel for a ... and google voice chimes in and tries to help, like a befuddled but ... check out the hosts! If you've set your mind on somewhere, apply to a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  ), which is open to everyone. If you're taking a class in Course 6 ... , you’re graded on P/NR, which means that, if you get a C- or above in a ... whether you get a spot in your chosen class, or an alternative, by the time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  on your criteria of what's important in a college. This whole process ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  page 5 join an MIT club, turn to page 7 get another degree, turn to ... memories spanning more than a year it's simply easier to introduce myself as ... decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... puzzles I wasn't able to show you. I hope you all had a good time, I know I ... 's a completely new kind of experience! Thanks again, more to come later

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  numbers, indexing into each answer to get a letter. Often these two phases ... assigned to get someone to dress up as Angelyne. And if you’re a Zoomer like ... [/caption] Come 2 PM or so, we gathered in a room to get our briefing for the parade

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ="Alan: I had a lot of fun with this, managing to get most of the songs in one ... accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  schedules, so in short is only pretty to look at and honestly doesn't even ... down to a heading 4, but i think it'll just keep getting better so i ... the year for any semester in your road and a popup appears, where you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  (surely "in" is no more important than "and"?) In a nutshell, Google grants ... Associate Advising meeting, hopped in a cab to Logan Airport, stood in line at ... to give me a helicopter ride if I ever find myself in San Diego. We did

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  will not hesitate to throw your two cents in to any and all conversations ... you have to be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this ... around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   If you're interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  get this funding, you'll have to write a short proposal describing your ... -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... assured that you can't find it in Boston. We made a trip today to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006