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Blog / Academics & Research
“This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT
So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse ... tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to ... pleasantly surprised to find some breaking news. While attempting to -
Blog / Admissions
Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…
've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect ... case. Need blind admissions have allowed more students to have a chance ... students from across the country and across the world routinely apply to the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Comments 3999 & 4000
Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed -
Blog / Admissions
International Selection Day 1
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students. I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to ... choosing only 100 students quite difficult. Already we've had to make -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research -
Blog / Admissions
Busy times
quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4 ... entry, I'll be going home to relax tonight. Things are starting to get ... to take this class; it's really awesome. Are there any classes you -
Blog / Admissions
International Men & Women of Mystery
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... that definition, there are two very important things to remember about -
Blog / Admissions
Branching out
With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , with no Central Meetings to do, I'll get to catch up with some friends ... building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to -
Blog / Life after MIT
Hello, world
job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story ... , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high school (my graduating class: 65 students!), and managed to take all three -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I don’t have a school counselor?
/principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor/principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades if available). We also accept the high school transcript alone to -
Blog / How to Human
my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something
The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do. There were no class schedules or club meetings to provide some substance -
Blog / Community Projects
Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince
letter to food written jointly by me (Sophia) and Tananya. I ... on Instagram to learn more about our events, recipes, team, and general ... . Tananya is the current head of MINCE. I started this organization to create -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility
thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half -
Blog / Personal Travel
F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc
_grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I ... 35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But -
Blog / Challenges
classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law
's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... your stomach clenches tighter and tighter, and you just want to scream ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you -
Blog / How to Human
i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths
end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... research. the third one is fulfilling obligations. they all contribute to my ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Is This All? how do i live without regret?
think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead -
Blog / Classes
The Art of Trying New Things V.2
wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... perspectives to analyze texts emanating from these debates, and present their ... four debate topics this semester as we are required to. My topics are -
Blog / Class Projects
weld your own bike and other IAP activities
is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a
