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Early vs Regular
MIT has two application cycles: Early Action (EA) and Regular Action (RA). What's the difference? Only the dates of the deadlines! It is fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if ... those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of ... facet of my many academic fascinations, there is a professor at MIT doing -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
intimidating. Like they're all just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel ... of a family friend. In February I got a temporary job at the census. I ... Affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...
/really cool grown-ups. As a part of their “residency,” they put on events at ... at life outside of MIT every now and then. In any case, go Cards! And ... what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.
should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome -
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Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.
assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any
who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of ... God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
video. It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... of my weekly schedule instantly popped out at me: Weekdays 7 -
Blog / Academics & Research
“So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*
random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers -
Blog / About Decisions
Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.
On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position -
Blog / Academics & Research
50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year
museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It ... . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates
: An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into -
Blog / Academics & Research
Axes of Confusion ????
of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... semester at a time, and see where that takes us. And, of course, write about -
Blog / Academics & Research
An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT
Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... tuition award! Many of the international students at the time struggled -
Blog / About Decisions
A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies
ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers
2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to -
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MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
D) Administrator at Duke VP of technical services company (formerly in the Air ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about