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What is need-blind admissions?
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.
of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry -
Blog / About Decisions
All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait
letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors -
Blog / Admissions
last minute application panic for the procrastinators
, please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon ... deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other -
Blog / Events
I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*
bunch of really nice pictures and want people to see them, tbh) MIT seems ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips ... cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East -
Blog / Academics & Research
The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet
It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... guaranteed admission, then be one of first to solve this year's HackMIT puzzle -
Blog / MIT Life
A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill
Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity
though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... 's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big -
Blog / Admissions
Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.
. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of backend stuff with the web site that was long overdue. Lots of it you can ... around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to -
Blog / MIT Life
Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.
I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this ... talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So -
Blog / Admissions
Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...
admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would -
Blog / Admissions
Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…
course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... in the mail. I'm not sure of the exact number of admits, but it is very -
Blog / Admissions
So, you’re applying to college.
nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I ... of the world's technology research, with the world's brightest minds -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois
Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois High school: Larkin High School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and -
Blog / MIT Life
Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.
picture of it? Hey, look, I was really hiking. Joe notices that on a nearby mountainside, a patch of particularly dense foliage has assumed the shape of an upside-down disfigured rabbit. This would be symbolically -
Blog / About Decisions
The waiting is the hardest part
I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in -
Blog / MIT Life
on being seen ...and why that might be important
I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time. However, as I -
Blog / Events
APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades
of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... the event, providing each floor of the dorm with staple ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and, of course, apples. This -
Blog / Challenges
what’s the word for
span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... friend that you’ve just met understanding only half of what someone just ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for