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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  when I consider the constraints on what we can actually do ... attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed ... 's admitted students was comprised of 48% women.  [annotation note='recently, I ... the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently. Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The only downside was that I had so many meetings I mostly saw the city from

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  worthwhile watch and can be helpful if you're missing MIT like I am. Some ... intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... recommendations from the BSU/BGSA. I hope we can continue discussing and taking

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus ... pronunciations are the least of your worries right now. Another can of lingual

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be ... budget, I recommend the food blog Budget Bytes. Where to Buy Groceries On ... buy most of my produce here. Since I live in East Campus, I have enough

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  . Anyway, I noticed this a few months ago, made a Twitter thread about some correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my first time commissioning art from people, and I had the following

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact, I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , having seen the kind of welcome our community can pull together, I feel at ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear. One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010