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  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a solid state school. I wasn't as happy as I thought I would have been at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  would be great. I will be choosing which work(s) are published; I'm sure ... I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... Advisors) and other house staff who live in MacGregor year-round"]would not ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  freshman exams were the easiest ones." "Let's hope so!" "I could go in there ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... biology and one in brain and cognitive sciences. So as I walked to the exam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  all! I've known plenty of people who have done UROPs not in their field ... who I just spent New Years with in Virginia, for example, was a ... Happy IAP! Today's events (sadly, I missed the Experimental Chocolate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... : In no particular order: Don't worry. We have your mail. We've been ... 're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... overnight supervisors in the dorms. So I started teaching at TDI 10 years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  should I take or activities should I be involved in? There is no one answer ... and recommendations highlighted in the Turning the Tide report, and I ... process, and I thought I would address those topics here. I think there is a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen ... is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how I will try to make a difference in the world within my field. Then I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  mistakes and everything was easy, how would we learn? Anyway, I spent A LOT ... Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  power through the final in the morning before crashing (I don't know anyone that does that). I can't really tell you how to best learn everything tonight because I don't know you or how you best study. But I can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  underlying theme of lost love. On the other hand, I would reply that it simply ... school. I know I’ve spent my fair share of time in the basement study room ... and I decided to throw an unsanctioned study break in our floor lounge

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  really well. How am I supposed to play music like this? Come on!   ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions ... ask this. I've spent my entire life in New England. No one on certain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen students take ... many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to say that all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... Tumblrs that post pictures of fresh designs in architecture, etc. Usually I ... to?  - Procrastinating.  I don't blame us. The Internet these days is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority ... us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them! Alpha Phi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025