Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather and such. Then she…
. According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:
  ... 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was
to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... applicant's true voice when we read his or her essay. Not some perfect ... therefore, a connection. We can always tell when an applicant's essay has
I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here’s ... like. It’s mostly a long strip:
There’s west campus on the west, which
, both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... much as possible). They say a person’s desk reveals a lot about their
Graduation
The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random ... Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by
3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... ’m a huge fan of Christopher Nolan’s films - Inception is my favorite of ... made plans to attend.
“It’s too bad I’m so busy this week,” I thought
DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon "Underdog" was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, all scenes that showed Underdog taking his Underdog Super Energy Pill were edited out because censors thought they suggested drug
feeling? That’s another discussion.)
On some days, I get almost nothing ... this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it ... don’t really work that well immediately after a meal. So let’s add in
’t a career catastrophe. There’s an entire world out there that doesn’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don ... ’t help myself sometimes.
But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let’s
Book Expo America (BEA) and we were both attendants. My dad’s steadfast ... actually having to invest yourself in this battlefield of emotions. There’s ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the
, MIT’s senior capstone mechanical engineering product design class ... audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you ... rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real
This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... her dream of becoming a teacher. It makes me think of one girl’s amazing
use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... work for committee. I was sitting in Dean Stu Schmill’s office, which has ... the Charles River. (You can catch glimpses of Stu’s office in some of
I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible tendency to sit fascinated for hours by…
DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to