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The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
Over the last few weeks I've posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do -
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The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio
's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of -
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Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.
On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... from my friend Wally, via my friend Lisa, about photo stills from the ... , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie -
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A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle
Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... century, [annotation note='According to MIT Libraries, the MIT Admissions -
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Adulthood Boom!
Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds
on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear. One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was -
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how to sail against the wind on tacking
, to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he -
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MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.
, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations -
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An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…
's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... drizzly and dreary in Cambridge. Our ceremony started at 4 PM, and the sun -
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Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.
started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up, and then fell behind again after getting sick from the flu shot. The -
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Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.
to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in -
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Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT
P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a -
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Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times
As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to -
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Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud
while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow, too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last -
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Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15
1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... , including Gus the Bus, a 1967 Volkswagen bus that Spencer spent five years -
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The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!
If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement -
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The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake
people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this ... reading old issues of The Tech, MIT's student paper. Soon enough, I found -
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The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?
you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... what they think the selection committee looks like. Their answers ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we -
Blog / About Decisions
Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me
To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days