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  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat McGovern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  Store ~> Columbia University Bookstore ~> University of Kansas ... college has books. Books come from one of three places: Internet, Library, or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  ; Theatre Building at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Camphor ... : October 6, 6:00pm; California State University Chancellor's Office, 401 ... handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  that I don't want a job that comes out of a poli-sci degree, but instead ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The entire state of Wyoming (population 509,300) has ... while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now, as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I will guarantee you exclusive rights to the publishing of this review and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  culture in which the leaders of one of America’s largest universities ... Paterno did a lot of good for the university and this community. He was more ... carry the weight of this university's mistakes on our shoulders. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you’re into that kind of thing. The Photography of Ring Delivery: Ridiculous Poses and Pictures of Hands A data summary-esque analysis by Ceri

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  front of Nanjing University of Technology (now renamed Southeast ... There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or ... popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  and north of Connecticut and east of New York and west of the Atlantic ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare, despite running out of energy cards sometime around Thursday afternoon

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... alum from the class of '82, and she had a lot of really great input on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014