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  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... decision we make. Some people would strike a slightly different balance in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  statement on the role of diversity in MIT’s educational mission, I would like ... [annotation note='In that role, I saw how both our alumni and our applicants ... importance of diversity in STEM education and workforce development, I would

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
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  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
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  same way, if I was in their shoes. How could we have solved this? How do ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10-250, other students would have gotten there before I could. Last week, I had ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... a breath of perspective. Even if I had been rejected, my dog would ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I ... exception of half a leg and an antenna. I figured it would be a waste of a ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the

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

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... in the works that would include faculty talks from MIT’s cast of ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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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

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now ... does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• 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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  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