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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  ?” “Well, I could if I had the time!” she says with a laugh. And with that ... familiar face. Next time you see President Kornbluth walking through the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation ... ”) ***** The fourth weekly time I travel to the Yard, I don’t linger. Past the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  and when I left I felt perfectly fine. This time, it took about three ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  spending time pining over a school that doesn’t appreciate you. And you owe

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ), curtains, rugs, a loft, a bed I bought off a friend, this time under rather

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and not fairness. Think about it. When is the last time you heard an

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

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  than that, I saw my daughter smile for the first time in months. She was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Charles Street that partly specializes in doorknobs, cabinet knobs, faucet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

   happens all the time in shoddy social science. And it inevitably occurs with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  rather than through individual initiative on the part of the student, or

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  itself which was a non-trivial part of my grade. I sent Prof. Grimson an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  beverages. I’m taking this class as part Media Arts and Sciences (MAS), which

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  students do. However, as part of the Turning the Tide report, we have also

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . Whatever it is you wanted: hold onto it as tightly as you can. The hard part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011