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  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

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

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  [annotation note="pronounced 'two double-oh nine,' referred to among Course 2s ... up to see above crowds at concerts. Everyone laughed when I talked about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats. Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... my [granted, pretty sharp] 10-year-old brother to understand this, even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... trends and unexpected exceptions to those trends. Reading season (and we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011