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  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy ... -related question: My advanced-placement-English teacher received an overwhelming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Today's tie: See for yourself below! An eventful day! Today, my subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... cultural show put together by one of my favorite students (okay, I have many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  joints. Here they are making my carnitas super burrito. Mmmm. Not pictured: my horchata to drink. The other thing we love about Anna's is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  ... though, due to my time restrictions during application season and the number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... you please comment about the Campus Preview Weekend? My son is planning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  predictions from my decisions. (i.e., if I don’t finish this assignment now ... will convey my thoughts to those who end up reading this, and whether that will have consequences on how my blog impacts those people, and so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... bridge? Not even an hour earlier, I was minding my own business, desperately trying to Courseroad and reorganize my junior year, when I received

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened ... . then i built my first sound system, connecting the 5 av mics to the av ... years of my time in college of course 5 mics wasn’t enough, so we also

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that ... difficult to look back on my time at MIT and not also see it as my time at WILG, since the two are so inextricably intertwined. My memories of dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I would write some snappy lines about how my bio no longer captures how I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  taught enriched me technically and shaped me into a better member of my ... my favorite - Jessica Quaye[/caption]   Caroline: Every ... .   The 2015 recipient of that award was my freshman year advisor

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  characters left to adequately describe the full extent of my obsession, so ... wore to major competitions (and also to my MIT interview) My face while ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the ... MacGregor people. I missed it (smh bad blogger), so no pics for you. My

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  firehose of insulin right through my veins. by admissions' own Holly ... (including my first choice, the only real school I was excited to attend ... . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some ... ’re available. My counselor/school already sent my midyear grades. Do I still ... form with your latest grades. My school does not provide midyear grades

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  MIT Midyear Report is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Don’t fill it out ... already out of school.   I think my counselor already did that ... your MyMIT tracking and you’re the one that needs to submit it. Even if

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... of the two majors I ended up in, I would certainly be stuffing my ... , I’ve been wrapping up main summer development, and my team of beta

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012