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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... always been a family affair for me, and I longed to eat with other people ... alumni said my name."][/annotation] Figure out an entire new city, state

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few ... . The precise form of the mathematics curriculum is not important as long

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

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

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  The Beach: This was another episode with great character insight ... screenshots of important scenes, and compiled a long PDF of the three episodes ... liquid nitrogen and smoke on different cooking shows)"]state

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  people as having an identity other than this. During the long weekend two ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... ’ve experienced these for so long, and so often, that I can’t ignore it any more. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... Memorial Housing for long.) You'll find that my dorm's been making head ... of two nearly-identical, 300-foot-long buildings known as the West and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... that long. Then on Monday and Tuesday, I will pretend I was busy doing ... 'd been down this road many times before. Drifting into a state of half

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... of MIT. Mystery Hunt (n.) - The (in)famous weekend-long mind ... Coursework 3.091 - Solid-State Chemistry ("three oh nine fun") 5.11x

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate ... meet again, but under what circumstances? How long will we be able to ... really, and not for long. I stand on the threshold of my room, all of my

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  . Other times I kept something on board for way too long and then wondered ... contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• 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

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... MIT for a long time, considering he's from Massachusetts. I guess maybe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , just long enough for someone of my stature (footnote: read: short) to lie ... stations, and every time I went running meant an hour-long search for free ... ’d stagnated in for years. I’d been alone before, but never for long. I had told

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... in a long-term committed relationship with a man, I'd... rather other ... “writing long letters to explain those words” because I’m extra like that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... are alternate universes where similar but different versions of herself ... patience, tolerance, and compassion, person-oriented skills that go a long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... participants arrived at the laboratory,” states the paper, “the experimenter (a ... women in math: research at Indiana University found that females

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... —find it. Being excited to learn will do far more for you in the long run

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015