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  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  perfection "is making our children sick," the MIT dean of admissions told a ... expect." What Jones can control is MIT, and there she has tried, at least ... . (Jones acknowledges that persuading MIT's faculty to go along is a long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively. In the ... of MIT students are MIT students. Admissions officers can write about ... so forth. MIT works by giving people high standards and great autonomy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  Angeles, California, is an accomplished photoblogger (and regular ... , Rachel is fighting fires, both in the trenches (as a volunteer firefighter ... , materials science, and (probably) dying her hair here at MIT.  These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  ", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A ... easier? Not to mention your most special friend, or "friend^0" is "the one ... go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  . After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly ... leaving your entire p-set untouched till the night before it’s due is clearly not a wise decision. And how the many incredible events at MIT all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Magazine, Wikipedia, and NPR's This American Life. Lots of MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... made me sick, and the things that did both. The problem is, that venn

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  questioned about coming into MIT is absolutely not all what I should have been ... prefrosh seem to be freaking out over imposter syndrome/is MIT too hard/am I ... you did in high school. Yes, MIT is harder than high school, but getting

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  !).  'Twas fun. :) Career Fair One of the amazing things about MIT is the ... learning community within MIT. So what exactly is a living and learning ... Three summers ago, I visited MIT with one of my fellow schoolmates

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  doing essentially nothing (I'm @ing myself), other MIT students have hit ... flee the country, which is what I did through the Big Dreams program. I ... started last year with 50 girls, 2 teachers, and 1 city. This year it is 600

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  year (and the last few years) is that the team has been consistently ... good the Patriots are is distributed proportionally across the offense ... model, is a simplification: it doesn't truly describe the ability of, say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  is the time to get your my.mit.edu account and get started! Oh, and by ... If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... decided that for our purposes that the long essay is obsolete... When you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try to do all the classic MIT things before graduating. Accordingly, LSC ... as pets (with collars). The Traags are an alien race which is humanoid

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  is power, then good blogs elevate and transform their audiences into ... is room for one more raspy and slightly nasal New York voice. Can we tawk? DISCLAMER: THIS BLOG IS NOT THE PLACE TO WORK OUT POLITICAL OR

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  same dilemma. On MIT’s admissions website, we claim that “MIT is one of ... skeptics out there), I can’t say whether or not MIT is unique in its ... ’s like a collage. No one photo can truly encompass everything that MIT is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to ... regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... seeking is useless. what i mean is that you’re an unfolding process. your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... concentration, which is public policy. I was slightly skeptical of 17.303 at first ... lecture, we (briefly) covered some MIT policy regarding graduation and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020