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  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name ... ? Why here instead of all the other schools?” And the answer I got back again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn ... . Questions 1. People lamented the lack of a Chipotle. (And Christina ... dorm I stayed in took me on a tour of the dorm, and by the time we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  now. Be Social was one of my first blogposts and it was also the first ... space deeper and better understand the nuances of sorority life. And ... of the semester I told Raymond I still did not like his frat and that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  of town?”, strangers who smile. Soft jazz and yellow lights in the ... the ice and prepare for an hour of sounding silly in front of one ... My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  find a jug of whole milk next to the half-and-half. Though I'm sure it ... day of MARC. While Hans took a nap and I wandered around the basement ... the game, put 200 in”, or “you got a crap load of nothin’!” And tell us

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  your phone and other necessary devices for the first couple of days ... specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and ... what you are doing for food the first couple of weeks before semester

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about ... from The Incredibles. xD       We had a lot of time to kill, and ... tell them the story of how I got the postcard, and it ends up taking up

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  ) plays and joins the hunt every year in the spirit and name of "having fun ... School Math teacher, who is a part of the NPL and also started a mystery hunt for the HS. I took a lot of his classes and after I got into MIT, he

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  to our first away match of the semester on the 2nd and 3rd of February ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... the first week that I joined the team, and I did quite terrible. But I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Mailing" (NBM), the first wave of which was sent out earlier this week (more ... to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  . A friend of mine and the co-chair of the Black Students Union (BSU ... Missouri, Yale University, and Ithaca College. For the first time since the ... burst and the real world slipped in — social media posts of personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  not graduate?  Freshman spring was the first period of crisis. I had ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... experience has expanded my outlook on life and the world. But first, I think ... backpack and two duffel bags and a whole lot of boxes and moved almost 2000

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  , Amira, Ari, and I made this unfolding zine that summarized some of the ... hard to debug due to the nondeterministic(ish) nature of the program and ... better appreciation of the technologies underpinning the fast and speedy

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  -colored shoes 6. She once wrote a 5-page paper on The Economics of Richard Cheese ... can be seen glancing around. The same image is shown on a 10’ black-and ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  interview happened two or more weeks ago AND you have submitted Part 1 of the ... of the application, an MIT tracking page becomes available in your ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  of people (MIT-affiliated and not!) descend onto MIT's campus over the ... against puzzles of any and all forms. This is the MIT Mystery Hunt: an ... MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  and actually go explore the city I live in. One of my first ~outings ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... and began to walk around alone to the soft pattering of classical music

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... of reflection, I started seeing the steps, mistakes, and choices that

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... other bloggers, and the zany meetings we have, and when we're together i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022