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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  citations, some synthesizing, and rampant speculation on my part; I'll make ... "] from the tech[/caption] My guess is that this was something of a ... experience of attending Campus Preview in 1986. "My host pulled an all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  's kind of a coincidence; if you've read my course catalog history you ... correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... . Finally, I'd like to credit my friend Lucas Ospina '26 on the card as he

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

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  clear any personal belongings out of my space in 3-001 before the ... minutes going through all of my stuff, I spent a good hour rummaging through ... titled MIT: Mind and Hand.[/annotation] I could feel my CJ

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  examples. Here's another comment from my diversity vs merit post about SAT ... . When an applicant says "I have X SAT score and Y GPA, what are my chances

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I ... from my multi-tasking with editing Wikipedia – was the fact that in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  offers you an environment where you can thrive. And that brings me to my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reasons, but my favorite reason are the students who are, um: And this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  other athletics at MIT; I'll do my best to find answers. P.S. I'm not

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  of the 2015 roller coaster (which I rode, and which some of my ... the line is his writing!  My name is Zack and this year, I was one of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  evaluating learning) and my extracurriculars (largely through ESP). Last year ... people showed up to this online forum. During my time serving on a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  Shop   The MIT Wind Tunnel was my first excursion into the Aero ... of my own close friends and an actual resident of Simmons dormitory

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Hello! My name is Nandini Choudhury (she/hers), and I am the Assistant

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  from my favorite sport of football: MIT isn't the end zone. It's where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time. It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks have made here on the blogs, such as David's Putting Diversity Into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  because we haven't made the app available yet. However, from my own time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... a studfinder. My attempt to reciprocate snarkily is cut brutally short as my body experiences a sudden lack of electrons. Across a variety of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  called a class catalog. Some things that caught my eye: 5505 Glass ... get numbers and which get letters, though my guess is that it's simply a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  (not even my family in Oregon) could access it. Then, magically, a day or

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008