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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  Kappa Late Night, a fall talent show for charity sponsored by one of MIT ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number 1024!" Did you just think, "Hey, that's a power of 2!"? So did I! So did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the Festival itself. FoL was organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts ... an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There ... upperclassmen or your favorite blogger, as long as they're both me). But of all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer ... like a lot of people view humanities as something to deal with and sweep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning alarm clock that will pull me out of bed with only five hours of sleep. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high-caliber pset profiles can be found here and here, but while all of these

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... writing (with more words), but my work builds upon some of my high school interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my ... lot of first impressions, both good and bad. here they are: this city ... few pedestrians as well, so walking on the streets is kind of lonely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class... The MIT Class of 2010, by: Gender: Male 55% Female 45% Ethnicity: African

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... ? Domestic selection (final stages). It's been a long season of Regular Action, but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... New Hampshire, of course. Now telling you the destination without ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly ... cold, their thorough line of reasoning being that coats made one less

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot ... , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color blind residents that used to live on Beast. I'm incredibly proud of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011