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Blog / How to MIT
Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte
hear that sometimes they have cookies. As an MIT student and as a college -
Blog / How to Human
Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans
candy, but there were other college students trick-or-treating just like -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Dudamel On music and becoming an old man
+ conservatory students from the Longy School of Music of Bard College. The MA kids -
Blog / Admissions
Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters
of college life so now the winding hallways don’t seem so hopeless, the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Summer Decisions
from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast
classes from Stanford students. Yale, Columbia, Duke, Rice, Boston College -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites
. In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in -
Blog / How to Human
Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5
desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many -
Blog / MIT Life
SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes
Thursdays, which may sound luxurious to you non-college-kids, but that's about -
Blog / Admissions
A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking
college admission process. Give them MIT’s list of qualities and start -
Blog / MIT Life
The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.
evening right before a college semester starts: hanging out with friends who -
Blog / Academics & Research
Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"
one of my good friends at Wellesley College told me a year ago. Grades -
Blog / Admissions
Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...
-reported grades match what is on your transcript. If you have taken college, online -
Blog / Challenges
You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.
This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions, for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends -
Blog / About Decisions
The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.
In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty With Data, CC poster mihcal1 made the following compelling comment: So basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT -
Blog / Admissions
Nerd Camp tales from TDI
staff are about to enter college. One of them was first introduced to -
Blog / Admissions
About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.
Naviance, teachers should see MIT on the list of colleges to which these -
Blog / How to MIT
Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.
all, if you have leftover pizza, you're doing college wrong. But let -
Blog / MIT Life
40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…
walls, and admirably managing to squeeze 27 college students into a rented