Blog Action Day

Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense? Well, youre not alone. Tomorrow is the second annual Blog Action Day, when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one important topic to drive the popular discourse towards more important topic than lolcatshopefully. This years theme is poverty, and a couple of MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should too! Check out the website above. Responses to questions: BrittanyL, a 13 hopeful asked a really good question: Wow, great examples, Cristen and Laura, thanks so much for posting those. I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), its become the greatest center of my hopes for my future. Your essays provide great examplesand for students as anxious about the outcome of their apps as I am, thats wonderful. I have to ask, though (despite not wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this years applicants (as with every year) simply wont get accepted. So, when you were applying, what other colleges had you picked out as secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to the great style and culture I see at MIT. Did any of you find other places with similar spirit during your application season? Thanks for your help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from the outside (though hopefully not for long!) :D This is an excellent question. Just to give you a few ideas: if MIT hadnt admitted me, I think I probably would have ended up at Case Western Reserve University. Stevens Institute of Technology is another good technology school in Hoboken, New Jersey, but it was way too small for my own personal tastes. For another perspective on this question, we can turn to the one and only Matt McGann. Starting with this entry (published on October 17, 2004) and this entry (published on November 14, 2004), Matt takes a minute at the end of each blog entry to mention a great school that often gets overlooked by students because it doesnt have the name recognition that people sometimes get too caught up in. Definitely worth a look, even if its from back in the day. ;-)