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  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  admissions process here at MIT, and we talk about it a lot. But what does it mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as ... closes with him coming up with I’m Still Standing, where it shows him ... original video (with Taron Egerton superimposed into it). https

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity ... residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  , where I now work) because they're certain they can't afford it. Given how ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  a apartment in Nanjing for a month since it was cheaper than a month-long ... thought it was wonderful, and would often repeat the phrase to myself, “we ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  forward again to see that you didn't. Laugh at how silly it all was. Wonder ... elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it ... and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... learned how painful it is to be sleep deprived for weeks on end; how sad it is to stay indoors nearly all the time; how lonely it is to barely see

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the ... , as long as I could really remember. I ran past the store, past the next

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... and the Sorcerer’s Stone to reread it, after reading a particularly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  people vary in how vivid their visual imaginations are, with some seeing it ... be an intense, visceral feeling, because it can be, and that is how ... suicidal when she has never felt that way? How was it possible for anyone to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  'm super happy with how the project went, and it's satisfying to see this ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it ... correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , and it's a long title, something like " ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... . I could tell it meant something to the die-hard fans, but I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference ... Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a dishwasher or a garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  choose Random... 066. How much cash do you have on you? Approximately $37 ... . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or myspace? um, you are currently reading it General 004. What is your height

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006