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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for ... better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which ... she struck a deal with me that we'd share payment for groceries, she ... for genetic changes linked to different types of addiction. After a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  myself how to use Photoshop for scientific applications today. Check out ... to be waiting for your grades for a week or so.) I've fulfilled all my ... ). Questions! 1. Thanks all of you for your kind words. I'll keep blogging as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... on "Leonardo da Vinci and the Search for the Soul" by world ... lie.) Saturday: 7:30 AM- 5:00 PM: MIT Habitat for Humanity workday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam ... journey through 14.33: Economic Research and Communication, my CI-M for the ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a ... grades and scores. Now that you have controlled for those factors, please ... -qualified, under-represented minority applicants. (Remember, this is not up for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  , because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very ... schedule for the next term, but this takes place several months before a term ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  visit him for his 20th birthday. Before I made it there, I experienced my ... actually won a game for once. Highlight of the Game: When the mascot did the ... for a bit because I was leaving the next morning for the Lone Star State

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I ... except for our own voices and some very excitable bullfrogs. There were

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... them look deceptively simple. Take, for example, one of this year ... team members are tallied for a country team score. This year, the top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  . Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the original blog for us, it has a "default banner" that says "replace this ASAP ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  (for which I still owe you the summary, I know) we had a group discussion ... hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... down to the fact that we don't have room for every excellent student who ... choices for college, though. We need to hear more about them. And parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something new. For my 2.651 D-Lab Energy class, we made ... ="attachment_115158" align="aligncenter" width="400"] voosh![/caption] For my 2

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... a good thing…I guess? Hmm, on second thought, and for legal reasons ... could create a video for the incoming class. I remembered him from WISE

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester ... , on making paradise for CPW; or spring break adventures; or the way that ... no space to breathe—no space to post. And yes, there has been time for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  funds for it. It was also super refreshing to be in these games classes ... rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt ... personality for a longtime. There wasn't anything I could really talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... Chinese characters, for readers who prefer those. Rona W. '22 also did reads ... everyone above —  especially Catherine and Alice —  for these translations! I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021