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International Selection Day 1
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the -
Blog / Admissions
Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.
year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted -
Blog / Events
Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works
. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago -
Blog / Classes
Collections Simple
things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9 -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has -
Blog / How to Human
Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery
by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or ... be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…
Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the ... 's sneak preview of the production, technology, quite literally, only serves -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!
Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly -
Blog / How to Human
mit made me rational on decision-making
dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good -
Blog / Internships & Externships
All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial
Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... thought but nary a blog. My solution has been to throw all of my random -
Blog / Challenges
A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.
Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities -
Blog / Miscellaneous
MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus
At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of -
Blog / Athletics
Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism
Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D
's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about glassblowing, I'll include some explanations of technical terms too. (And if you -
Blog / Miscellaneous
gratitude happy thanksgiving
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... all the dimensions of rage, or resentment, or joy, or grief, but -
Blog / Challenges
old east campus working through feelings caused by news
senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating -
Blog / Announcements
An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives
of the recent tragic killings of African American people across the United States – including the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery (Glynn County, GA ... Associate Dean and Director of the MIT Office of Minority Education Di
