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Blog / About Decisions
As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in
document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.
, and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... us in for tea while we waited for a tow truck to come! Anecdote 6: One ... been, coming to Boston for the first time? How are people different here -
Blog / Extracurriculars
dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters
, for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... ! Approximately weekly "game theory"-ish games for Next to play Paolo why? I ... liked it so much that he was willing to fund prizes for the rest of the -
Blog / About Decisions
Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity
, once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to -
Blog / About Decisions
Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.
like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... face, let my eyes wake up, and still tired, headed off to work for ... regardless of the outcome, none of that goes to waste. We are all better for -
Blog / Athletics
And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game
motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just ... present for all the ups and downs of an athlete’s journey. Thanks to the ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in -
Blog / Challenges
On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave
being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist
artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger
, waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... writing come easily for you? If you take five hours to write 500 words, this -
Blog / Admissions
No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.
ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... Internet to be skeptical of anyone asking for this sort of information when -
Blog / Academics & Research
My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months
original task was to see if this same logic would hold for stimulating ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... pretty psyched to get in). The reviewers leave comments and suggestions for -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.
, thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure ... -party type. I, for instance, haven't been to a frat party since early -
Blog / About Decisions
I Challenge You Pi day approaches.
reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans -
Blog / About Decisions
Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.
they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not -
Blog / Featured Blogs
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... up with people for no reason other than to derp in the hallways and -
Blog / Featured Blogs
What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.
LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END -
Blog / Featured Blogs
A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.
teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... , children, come to Muti for school. Many will live with relatives or rent -
Blog / About Decisions
We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.
submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell
designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me