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  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... great application I think being ranked 20th instead of 5th in your ... ). I took a lot of AP classes in high school. In fact, I took 14 of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual ... plane) of the city of St. Louis, Missouri. A mural painted by our kind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  can tell, it’s quite useful :P This is what I've been playing with in ... when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  brighter you can see whole constellations from the middle of the city. in ... of spring and what I learned, what knowledge I gained, and I can show ... skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I ... likelihood of you buying local more often?] “Becoming a better cook” [Q ... '?] “Whatever -- anywhere the wind blows is cool” In other news: one of the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  presence must be very prominent in all of the US. And then, I get here to ... to volunteer at an orphanage and cancer centers in Mexico City. Of ... , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... result in instant victory--kind of like the snitch in Harry Potter, I guess ... If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... , a woman involved in the testing aspect of DINEPA, whom we showed our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  bawled her eyes out. Her husband (my brother-in-law) and I made fun of her ... in Michigan. I'll write more soon with a recap of my meeting in Ann ... blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... studio. I miss this kind of food when I’m away from my family. Over the ... , and I’ve been trying to make most of them during actual work weeks. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  . 14:08. i arrive in the classroom. there are handouts in the front of ... going to keep at most one of these classes. in any case, i felt deep ... the chain of third floors to make it to my next class, in 26-142. i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... speaking English. I was also told that in some parts of Andorra, Catalan is ... 'm usually really spoiled when I travel in the sense that typically a lot of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  for two reasons; 1. I can sit in the grass and work and 2. I can get ... experienced the coldest temperatures of my entire life. I am definitely not in Florida anymore! I went out today in part to get the photos of the places

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  color of each ball in the process i want to prove to my friend that ... stuff is promising. but i’ve enjoyed my work in spite of these ... one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this ... fully that I would only seriously approach a small number of them. In

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  2050 so that Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side in a city ... After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007