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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
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  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don't know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home

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

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters ... from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... farther (further? does anyone really know the difference?...Of course, now I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... , the disappointing reality of many internships. But the more

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

    Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my ... Every semester, one of the male living groups on campus, Chocolate City

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was ... connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... Garten, the incomparable host of TV's Barefoot Contessa, was coming to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... undergrad [Janet] if she had seen Silence of the Lambs, which came out in 1991

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of ... media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of ... collection of ramblings and loose ends that don’t deserve the term “novel”, don ... ” means. The other three iterations of this draft touched on all those

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016