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  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of ... the negative comments about APs come from. 10-15 APs is not a ... schools' real or imaginary affirmative action policies. There was a thread

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the northern lights tonight from just north of Boston…" "A [Kp9] event ... comprise 4 out of 5 people from our total eclipse crew. What a celestial ... looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  wants that from me. A rant about the GRE and standardized testing in ... I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  Here are some updates from the Admissions Office... Applications: We have received 18,064 total applications, a 1% increase over last year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  Orchestra (MITSO) played an exceptionally original and edgy concert. As a ... . This concert was unique for several reasons: 1. We premiered a newly ... symphony was composed by Charles Shadle, a faculty member in the Music

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... Part 2, Secondary School Report and Transcript, Evaluation A (math or ... time. We will wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  trips to fun places. While this sounds like a lot of fun and something ... pretty much nonexistent for a few years until the current president, Linda ... doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just

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

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... address?), announcements from every group on campus promoting their events/shows/fundraisers, as well as all kinds of junk from fellow students who want to share

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  My grandfather was from Milledgeville, Georgia. He was a simple man ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... Ben Jones did a terrific job handling my light work. Instead, let

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... Chicago economist Steven Levitt. He received his PhD from MIT in 1994, and ... groaned about what a lame pun that was. On a slightly unrelated note, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  from my advisor, it was such a rewarding experience to be able to shape ... , and I wrote an art and design thesis. These credits congealed to form a major in 6-2 (electrical engineering and computer science), a major in 4-B

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  decentralized. So, for example, if there was a professor at MIT from a particular ... Science and Technology Initiatives) is the umbrella organization for a lot ... ://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-spain/ (which just a few months ago was a much uglier website, nice job on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  with knew a grad student from MIT and asked us whether we would like to ... - because you will surely hear a lot from me about iHouse in the entries to ... ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  'll translate from the scrawl). Be warned that I occassionally curse like a ... blue journal, the first night I spent away from home. I was taking a gap ... . Entry from Sept 9th, Cortez, CO, the sidewalk of a park while I waited for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  paste from a program like Microsoft Word into the application, you may ... are listed above: pasting special characters from Microsoft Word and a ... Waiver, or a letter from a school official detailing your situation. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The ... academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  could not find my way from East Campus to Building 7. This was a path that ... for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision. It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  , Pt. 2) from a few years back before you do so. It's a terrific ... . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013