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  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... completely decimated west New York and Jess H. ’24 named the craziest cities in ... , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  University of Chicago New York University somewhere else I forget Rejected ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to ... then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened. And maybe I can get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  , Delaware and most recently Ithaca, New York. I am a graduate of Norfolk State ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  , only in Rome instead of New York...made some sort of huge difference. I ... world. Hopefully, after four years of TFP, this hypothetical job will not entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  . their minds were probably like “whoaaaa Massachusetts Institute of ... I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... -- MIT alums are cool HISTORY OF MIT BLOGGING I'll keep this short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  suburban Lantana. A resident of suburban Lake Worth, he will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., this fall. He plans to ... Delray Beach. Masakazu Toshikage, the consul general of Japan in Miami

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining ... ER or Ally McBeal of admissions. But I digress… I fell into admissions

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  --it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world. It's like a New Yorker's view of New York ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  MIT, as it provides an administrative view of the Institute (we're often ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... jokes. Now that I'm leaving the Institute, I feel confident that it's in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an