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Blog / About Decisions
It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.
admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like ... all of your applications. As we began Selection Committee I was -
Blog / Academics & Research
Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…
few people would deny that individuals are shaped by their experiences. Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali -
Blog / About Decisions
Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…
dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... , just didn't shower? Me too. But seriously, congratulations! In my 9 ... one experiment we ran in class involved everyone writing down their -
Blog / MIT Life
Desired things a youthful aside.
later I discover it in a box under my bed. I don't remember putting it ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first -
Blog / Admissions
NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.
are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about ... (behind the camera: Ben) I'm in the office in Cambridge briefly again today -
Blog / Academics & Research
Do You Have A Core Curriculum?
Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three ... I participated in was at Stuyvesant High School. The Stuy college ... 'll be participating in ISEF, best of luck to you, and I hope to see you -
Blog / About Decisions
Anticipation a little something to keep you company
a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this exact same place in this exact same moment feeling exactly whatever it is that you are feeling right now. As you get through the day, I'd like to -
Blog / Events
Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)
in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting ... We held it at the Boston Sheraton In this picture, the Sheraton is -
Blog / Admissions
Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.
. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants and the difficult decisions we make in selection. This year, we received ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…
previous years, I have conducted Central Meetings in Providence, St. Louis ... Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii ... 've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day
is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I ... incredible, at least to me, in the sense that I have literally never seen ... open in coach, and the lounge is not yet fully awake, I suspect. It is my -
Blog / How to MIT
Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.
turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... that there are two chem majors who live in your hall. One of them stays ... light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT -
Blog / IAP
small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia
Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it
Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there ... into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I ... calm you down/you think should be added to the playlist? Let me know in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.
own consulting company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One day, the story ... tickets worked. "I remember telling myself that the Ontario Lottery is a ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Surprise! Long time no see!
, and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then part of her head exploded because she couldn't figure out how I, and only -
Blog / Admissions
Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…
I did many things this weekend during CPW: -met you. As I said at ... you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the ... of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving -
Blog / Admissions
camer-AHHHHH! redux
Mitra always has snazzy photos on her blog (though I am sad to hear ... my last trip I took pictures of my Central Meetings and promised to put them up on my blog, though unfortunately I also had some camera -
Blog / Admissions
Kickoff! and away we go...
song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the ... date on this song makes me more than a little nostalgic. I did a lot in ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience