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Blog / About Decisions
The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"
?" But I'm only getting it from intelligent, accomplished, creative -
Blog / Academics & Research
Trading Room
Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the mailing list of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association, or (SUMA). I often get some interesting notices over the list, and thought I'd share -
Blog / Admissions
Selection-time Questions Omnibus
..." asked, "Hey Matt, I'm just wondering, after everyone gets their acceptance ... Organizational Change. nghi also wrote, "I'm wondering if you can write about the ... , which I'm proud to be able to say was the first state in the Union to -
Blog / Admissions
A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.
Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
We, the people
As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Ashutosh Gowariker (Lagaan), starring Shahrukh Khan (think of him as -
Blog / About Decisions
The waiting is the hardest part
I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Theory of Actual Reality
I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long Island, Queens, Northern Virginia, Suburban Maryland, and Baltimore. Next up: the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, starting Sunday. I forced Ben -
Blog / Admissions
Keg of worms and phytoplankton
I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing with my uncle out in Shinnecock Bay. Nothing too big: we were just going -
Blog / Admissions
January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.
what the name of Nance's baby is? We're very curious =D" I think I'm at ... is there a different form we could use?" Michael wrote, "I'm an ... Mid-Year Report or some sort of supplement for it?" SyRx wrote, "I'm an -
Blog / Admissions
August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…
list AP courses where I'm not actually taking an AP course (since my high ... 183 words. I'm sure I could drop like 10-20 words from each, but that ... the fact that Im taking calc bc this yr and have thus exhausted my -
Blog / Miscellaneous
My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why
laugh, or at least mutter a perplexed "...what?" Turns out, I'm not the ... how I should've done things differently. I guess I’m not alone in this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!
, I'm trying to figure out how the very intimidating AV box works ... familiar with the runway route and how to walk in sync at 115 BPM. I'm -
Blog / Academics & Research
Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!
I'm doing exactly what the title says: ranking [annotation note ... Another GIR. I'm just not the biggest fan of chemistry. Becoming Human ... practice I was just pretty bored. Also, I bombed the tests haha. I'm just not -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist
because it’s not real). At this point, I’m somewhat convinced that quantum ... this is to say that I'm taking those classes now, and it'll be an awesome -
Blog / Life after MIT
Three patterns from the pattern language of my life
. I’m not saying it’s an efficient use of space, especially considering ... could when I was working a regular job. I want to make the most of it. I’m ... , I’m in another little cocoon. My focus on my baby and meeting her -
Blog / Community Projects
Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler
. I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter ... it out of the park. I'm still sitting in awe. It's my purest form of -
Blog / Life after MIT
[Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz
For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)
quiet. And then, as I’m walking back, I see thirty, maybe forty people ... [annotation note="if you somehow know, please tell me I’m so curious LOL -
Blog / Classes
things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes
. A few words about my classes, which are also making me happy. I’m ... motivates me to read my very good complex analysis textbook, so I’m happy with