It’s not perfectly accurate – and you should keep that in mind while reading the following findings – but it is fascinating! Put simply: I scraped a lot of data from the blogs so that I could begin to wrap my arms around what we’ve done. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to write some code that would help me grok the scope and impact of the blogs quantitatively and computationally. Certainly it wasn’t clear that the blogs would keep going strong for more than a decade, that they would one day be featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of colleges would start their own blogs based on the MITAdmissions model. When Ben and Matt founded the blogs, it was not clear what would happen, or what they would be. These blog posts do a spectacular job at telling the many different stories of MIT as experienced by some of its most thoughtful students. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. I feel like I have learned so much – about MIT, about myself – by doing so. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign it to my students, I would have any serious applicant read all of these. These are, in my opinion, some of the best blogs that have ever been written for MITAdmissions.
Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch by Rachel F.Life slows down a bit – if you let it by Snively ’11.
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How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay by Keri G.Right back where we started from by Mollie B.In case you missed it, here’s an index of their entries: We celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us.
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