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  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for ... Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  .  It's a week-long "boot camp" during IAP where you do a lot of workshops ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  science. What can I do to show my stuff?" Well, there are a number of things ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  As Sam Cooke once said, "It's been a long time coming but I know a ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  out what to do next. I decided to work on a different puzzle instead. I ... ’m doing a major contribution? Are puzzles really fun if you’re just ... some puzzles, which will be marked. This paragraph is not a puzzle. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  ="118124" image2="118123" /] almost exactly a year later, instead of doing a ... moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  wanted nothing to do with a snot-nosed frosh which is, well, pretty ... I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of ... buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A Part III blog. _________________________________ Q: I got a question

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  has so many food opportunities, but do you feel that it causes people to be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... places that bring everyone together?" That's a good question, and one I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  . Second semester, D's and F's do not show up on your transcript, but A's, B ... take a class, do a short internship, travel, go home, or just bum around ... 1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress ... graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017