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  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... understand that it is the interaction of these myriad factors which constitutes ... misguided. "Academic merit", it is suggested, should be the sole dispositive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... difference. 9:38pm: The article on women faculty, coming in at 1,600 words, is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  /mobile UI is triggered by the width of your browser). The annotations are ... in the admissions process; a ruling is [annotation note='The Supreme ... to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  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 ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... room. Another nice touch is Tony Stark on the cover of MIT's alumni ... for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... which one it is. The example scenarios in the problems grow increasingly ... . The Stata Center has four towers. It is five AM and your PSET is done

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  , we consider two flavors. The more common form is exploratory hacking, which is also the older one: there's never been a point at which ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B ... UROP in the second conversation is more complete than the reason in the ... , and, besides, the example is obviously exaggerated. The point, however

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  , January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp & springy and the air smells like water and moss. It’s January so this is ... soft crushing sound, then the wind stops and there is only the water

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data ... do we measure and how do we measure it? Is the trait thus measured

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  posts + this podcast). But finally, against many odds, the well is ... is a problem with the construction of the well. Since this well was ... typhus/typhoid infection The AfriDev pump is, on the one hand, simply

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note ... of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the ... be the one you think is correct. Of course, now that I’ve given you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the line is his writing!  My name is Zack and this year, I was one of ... accurately is relatively challenging, however. One of the other project leads ... the fort’s rectangular footprint.  This method is effective in theory

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18 ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be ... , the thing I am ultimately studying, is young enough that depending on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations. The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... (the smart lamp) will periodically poll the server for the color it is ... loop of the code for the ESP32. If there is no input query, the server

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020