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  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... the applicant. We deploy "holistic" to differentiate against admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  problem! If you happen to create your own, we’d love to see it in the ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... ?” “Brights building, G5.” “Oh! Billy, he’s arrived!” the porter called to his ... Fi. If you’re there now, enjoy it any way you can, devour it. Let it be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... , but you rebuild yourself to be even better. More and more over the years ... ’m trying to be. It’s hard to wrestle against the part of yourself that feels

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... irrationally) fearing that I would be starving in June. The answer to that ... a bar? It is called the Muddy Charles Pub, and I had to look that up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... , 10, 4, 8 (east). At one point believed to be the longest contiguous ... dorm, in addition to being residents of the dorm's community. A dorm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you ... the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I ... shaping the arc of their flight. I used to be one of them. Back at the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class"]about ASEs[/annotation] and classes we want to take and the swim test. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  , reset, and get back to the core of who I am and who I want to be. Petey I ... goal is to be able to get Riley to ride the Red Line and behave in the ... questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  .) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them ... Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come ... who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... through the bulb, it needs to be able to jump from one atom of metal to the ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  if he’ll ever be able to write the way he did before. Finally, the film ... would’ve been our Senior Week. In the fall, I’ll be over at Harvard to ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... to interact with the staff, even if it was only pleasantries. Have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... : Throughout the survey I also put text boxes to write down any thoughts. If ... 't really matter if the personality is a match. I want to own a real live pig

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... possible persons he wanted to be.   Wikimedia image(s) of Janus, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  don’t have the energy to do things, it’s okay if I take breaks, it ... these months, work is hard enough to make me feel like I should be able to ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018