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  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  person in Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. I: The Magician / 3: Materials ... . How can a finite language contain infinite utterances? Artist: Shuli J ... : Michaela P. '24, major in Biology. I don't really have much of an artist

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the ... break, Erin and I came in every day and pounded out code until the motors

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember--mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my 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

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... before I started dissecting the head, I leaned in a bit too close and saw a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015