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Questions Omnibus, Part 1
example, my friend Jake got a terrific room his freshman year at the East -
Blog / Events
Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing
-dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... -MIT adventures, I have less to offer you. But! I still know undergrads! I bumped ... applications. Anne Condon's talk on DNA programming offered an interesting way to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.
. I don't understand why colleges don't offer up more triples. Yes, it will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the ... if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having -
Blog / How to Human
on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression
are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... state in which you're performing an activity where you are fully immersed ... Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which -
Blog / Academics & Research
Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…
undergraduate students who choose to major in writing (MIT offers creative writing ... state how much that experience meant to me. It was as if I had been ... an undergrad degree, doing something technical and high paying in a -
Blog / Admissions
(Q & A)^n
asked, "Is it important to consider Nobel laureates at a university when I ... amazing universities, many of which don't have any Nobels to their name. The ... &M University. I had occasion to spend a week with the folks who run the Texas A -
Blog / Admissions
Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11
controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State ... and took this picture. So, as a licensed history teacher in the state -
Blog / Admissions
Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
, parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I ... , the Mountain states, and the Midwest -- look for more information soon -
Blog / Admissions
Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.
feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I -
Blog / Life after MIT
Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT
us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... number of reasons (including MIT’s amazing financial aid offer), I arrived -
Blog / Academics & Research
2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!
humanities, and only one graduate ball represents the coveted MIT diploma ... ) and comforted me. Bryan even offered for me to take apart his robot to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator
nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then ... /10 such that Example: “Should the laws be changed such that the state has less power?” Translation: “Should the laws be changed so that the state -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event ... effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... that spoke directly to a state of being–in stasis, or peril, or -
Blog / How to MIT
New Beginnings Roses and Thorns
never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... the States, I’ve been on the subway twice during my Freshman Pre ... offered at the aquarium, then visit for the aesthetics- the dimly lit -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX
Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown: Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University, Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome -
Blog / About Decisions
Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.
.R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... , he was admitted to MIT. In response to the admission offer, he took MIT's offer to do a gap year(s) to focus on his racing career, looking to return -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.
later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative ... between me and an MIT diploma is ICE 2. I remember lounging around my suite -
Blog / Extracurriculars
The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!
-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a ... varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept -
Blog / Admissions
Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!
enrolled at another university in a degree-seeking program, you can only ... each program has to offer." This is correct. Approximately 50% of ... university for one semester only wants to apply to mit as a freshman provided