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  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... Stu, and on many other people in our office too. The book has been out of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our ... in less than a week. I was excited that I beat all the odds and that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier ... 's not common, at least in India, to find several NGOs to be working in the same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... to admit qualified women in enough numbers to reflect the applicant ... live on campus in their freshman year. And no one wants to spend his or

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... in this image: [caption id="attachment_103880" align ... (and broke and superglued one shoe) to buy the clock from [annotation

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores ... 't overlap). Stick the tray in an oven on the lowest setting and wait a day ... hot water with honey and sesame seeds (throw in a touch of sesame oil or

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little"]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... found myself facing the once-in-a-blue-moon challenge: finding something

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... was a tangent !!!! sorry !! ok, so, in a vacuum and [annotation note="in ... these calculations in my head) for the entire 25 minutes, i’ll have about

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... technologies with roots in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Physics. (Even if you’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a ... not fw blithely gallivanting in PR without educating yourself and being ... reserved tickets for rainforest entry a month in advance (they sell out fast

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... -placement puzzle game, where you put engineers and scientists in certain nodes to try

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad ... deportation procedures. In short, we can come with a lot of baggage; baggage

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity ... intermediate stops along the way (in Mass., New Hampshire, and Maine). The ... get a meal here at one of many eateries in either the surrounding area

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... " works really well in the Google search form. In googling, we managed ... buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... world that Tartt created in the book, and the ease with which is sucked me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  ."]Yesterday,[/annotation]after turning in my last assignment for the semester and celebrating my freedom ... feeling like there is a clock ticking down; there is no guilt in our ... . The restaurant is quite small, and so we get our orders to-go and eat in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  cluttered (but cozy) room. We then set out for the CPW registration hall (in ... two of them, because we were too engrossed in our Bible. After just ... snacks.) The ball pit @ Simmons Hall. It's surprising relaxing in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which ... Innovation & Design (EID), a class in the GEL program, together last fall ... , Blade Kotelly, mentioned it in class. A few months passed and then Sarah

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011