Financial Aid Application Process
This is the time of year where the staff in Student Financial Services starts receiving questions about the financial aid applications process. We hope this information will help you through the...
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in the pursuit of knowledge
"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 the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never...
View ArticleEarly Action Updates
We are less than two weeks away from the Early Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on...
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Roombaaaa
My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of...
View ArticleA question for you…
What is a scientific/engineering topic that you find most difficult to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to...
View ArticleInfo for MIT QuestBridge Finalists
This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can ask questions for MIT Early Action and Regular Action at...
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My brother is cooler than me
A couple weekends ago, the average age on campus suspiciously increased, while "real" adults donning excessive amounts of MIT apparel flooded the Student Center and Infinite. I'd almost forgotten what...
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Sleep is (not) for the weak
This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually...
View ArticleMIT Gangnam Style
In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube....
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The little things
Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to female bathrooms on MIT campus) MIT female: Also, BUILDING THREE. Average number of men's bathrooms per floor: two point eight....
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MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012!
What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off the highest building in Cambridge! Or, more accurately, they...
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Halloweekend
Blogosphere: “Yo, Anastassia, where’ve you been? What’s your freshman year been like?” Anastassia: “Oh hey, you! My freshwoman year has been the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air...
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Meltdown
This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right...
View ArticleQuick EA Update
Happy Halloween! Today is October 31, the day before the November 1 Early Action Deadline. Here are some brief updates. Sandy: If you have been affected by the storm, for example with power outages or...
View ArticleRandom Post While Reading Apps.
I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We...
View ArticleTales From Turning Twenty
A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird has happened every day of my 20-year-old life so far (not sure whether this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase)...
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The Infinite Corridor, set alight
If you hang around MIT long enough you'll begin to notice some phenomena. Pumpkins being dropped off tall buildings. Pianos being dropped off short buildings. Grumkins who haunt the hallways and...
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Every now and then, my mind = blown.
Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I...
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SCIENCE!
Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a sample tile that my sister and I have since rediscovered....
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