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Blog / Admissions
A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking
college admission process. Give them MIT’s list of qualities and start -
Blog / MIT Life
The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.
evening right before a college semester starts: hanging out with friends who -
Blog / Academics & Research
Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"
one of my good friends at Wellesley College told me a year ago. Grades -
Blog / Admissions
Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...
-reported grades match what is on your transcript. If you have taken college, online -
Blog / Challenges
You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.
This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions, for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends -
Blog / About Decisions
The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.
In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty With Data, CC poster mihcal1 made the following compelling comment: So basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT -
Blog / Admissions
Nerd Camp tales from TDI
staff are about to enter college. One of them was first introduced to -
Blog / Admissions
About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.
Naviance, teachers should see MIT on the list of colleges to which these -
Blog / How to MIT
Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.
all, if you have leftover pizza, you're doing college wrong. But let -
Blog / MIT Life
OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.
international college students to teach their local high school students the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em
glad I'm not at home, and many other typical college experiences. Today -
Blog / Events
A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.
meaningless, which confirms my suspicion that the College Board has been -
Blog / IAP
Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!
-story. Being the broke college students we are, we wanted the cheapest possible -
Blog / Academics & Research
This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.
and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make -
Blog / Academics & Research
A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!
colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and -
Blog / Events
Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…
. Admittedly, it's a relief to step away from college for a few days and taste -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!
colleges next March. It was hard to leave the festival. I mean this -
Blog / Academics & Research
What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.
Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult, or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real -
Blog / Academics & Research
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.
have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of