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  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  credentials and supporting documents from which a composite is formed that ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician ... at MIT. The question thus arises: how do we constitute a class from all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9,000 kilometres from home, more than ten times farther from my parents than I had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... ).  Every fall, like leaves tumbling exhausted from branches, admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , there’s a perfectly flat surface from the hatchback to the front seat ... from a gallon jug I filled up at gas stations. From there, the goal was ... up a cafe and park far from it, so that I could walk and see the town

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... ’m going to borrow a quote from an incredibly powerful song from Hamilton: “I ... Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  reenacts the passion of Christ as a one-man show, from the Garden of ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania ... A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  who are first-generation to college, students from a variety of ... that one may have to cope with as a result of coming from a low ... I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  a good, healthy, well-functioning place. And I've found I benefit from ... orient myself to a new reality. I probably needed a break from lifting ... generic big-box store barbell/plate package at a heinous markup from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  from me, smiling and holding up a book she had written. While this was ... . There’s a planning committee—it handles everything from invitations to ... from this post, it’s simply this: do not dig open a grave in real life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  detailed explanation, see Snively ‘11’s post from 2009.) This rule is a huge ... by hand, not with a script) on the people who had sent them from the ... years these are from. Figure 1a: Underwear Color by Undergraduate Dorm I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  people I know from the different parts of my life. Kind of like a crossover ... ?  Bryan: Scientifically, I saw an amazing talk from a speaker from HHMI ... of advice you’ve gotten from someone? Bryan: Professional - I get a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non ... injuries from heart attack, strokes, and liver damage. TL;DR: I am doing a ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer ... ), and the college library are a few hundred feet away from my staircase

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... from last year"]more times[/annotation] than I had opened a bottle, it ... the tail in order to hammer it from a square shape to a round shape

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... acquaintance from orientation might teach you a whole new way to think about the ... it’ll be a great break from the stress of school. But also don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  missing high school an inordinate amount lately. I come from a very small ... This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022