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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional ... . All too often students are lauded for being admitted to places like MIT ... else, and that is exactly what happens for students we are unable to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  and I got to talk to some people who I haven't seen for more than a ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  say, but now I have to get ready for tonight's presentation in Tampa ... 've missed you! After CPW, I was sick for nearly two weeks, and I got better just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to ... 'll have a small reception for any students visiting MIT. The reception will ... that there will be many students around tomorrow for several reasons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  short: we continue to read applications. It'll be like this for another ... After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for ... 're a geek, you won't be able to escape hearing about MIT; even for MIT ... to come), the freshmen Logs put on a skit for the audience that they

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  weekend events. It takes maybe half an hour for all the prefrosh to arrive ... . Words didn't need to be spoken. I run to my next event in McCormick for ... projects to work on. No time to stop for breaths; sleep my only respite as I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... time to just sit down; time for myself to think, to reset, to stop sprinting from class to club to friend to event and just exist for a while

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women ... documentary on the Math Prize for Girls here: </param > <

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  , 100 million people who wanted to vote for him, and Kat and Taylor each ... to register their votes for each contestant? This would explain why ... stay open for two hours following the show. Seacrest said that 50 million

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in Lobby 7 for the Hunt Kickoff: Our team Captain, Keith '02, holds up the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  had to advocate my vision for the play and inspire the other designers ... where I try to communicate my vision and they make it into a reality. For ... What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I ... passions for math and writing, and that I wanted to get into a selective ... entrepreneurial schemes . . . Also, for the first time, I'm starting to think about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  . This isn't true over IAP, so lots of people learn to "fend for themselves ... fending for myself for a few months now, but I did take this opportunity to ... students for three hours a week. I've been wanting to learn ASL for a loooong

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  flips over to fold into a desk that would be way too big for any actual ... ordinary tire swing). Anyways, CPW came to an end, and when the time came for me to apply for housing, I put East Campus first - I wasn't sure that

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  a few milliseconds longer for the brain to process the concept ... A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey everyone, As you may know, I am not-so-secretly a blogger for MIT Admissions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... 's assignment we had to submit a pitch for six different story ideas that we ... kind of fire. But then I had no idea what to do for my last pitch. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to ... can’t write about what it’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for ... student culture. We pay you for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  items for me to do in the future. this has helped me go to more ... calendar for the past three years. light blue are things that are interesting, but not mandatory. i may or may not go to them based on various

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019