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  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a ... The CollegeBoard's Website for information about the exams, and all of ... get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  intensity of the admissions process and constant news reports warning how ... and asked whether the young man had a chance of being admitted to MIT ... relations and enrollment at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through ... 's a creative energy that drives and develops the "universe" of a media

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at ... members from the classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to ... . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  drawing a sad smiley on the final page of a difficult midterm and hoping you ... got the sense of how beyond the 1400 pages of our textbook and the words ... home. The first round of admissions decisions will be out soon, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming ... 't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... I missed and loved the Boston-Cambridge area. I also just really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  , the solo performance I'm most proud of was spinning to "The Rockrose and ... different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  establishment of the Rainbow Lounge the MIT students, staff, faculty and guests ... 'm not Yan.)   The Rainbow Lounge has a whole bunch of resources ... indicates that those behind the door are friendly to and supportive of LGBT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  being featured on the coveted pages of Chop Stir Hack? First, we dormspam ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... , with the addition of brunch on weekends and holidays. Maseeh serves lunch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Airbnb in the suburbs of Phoenix and literally had no other books left ... , and the son ventures in to find traces of his father. His mother knows ... going on. The story is told in both the mother’s point of view and the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I ... assignments, you can filter and sort the table and view it in multiple of ways ... colors and and symbols throughout the page. The pretty sky on top is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  organization in charge of liaising between the writing team and MIT. The first ... scenes, and many of the metas have authors' notes in the solution page. But ... This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  blog entry and get back to one of my two 20 page term papers. I will ... So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  all of our completed applications to them and they shipped the whole ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... bridges and become the first Asian pop star to succeed in America. A few ... the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  old site had accumulated dozens and dozens of beloved pages, like the ... so many pages and options on the new site that it had become difficult ... almost every page: the "Best of the Blogs." The MIT Admissions blogs grew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to ... registered for MyMIT and live in the US, you should receive your application by the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  , before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole ... page’s deep voice, of imagining a better world. it was the last musical i ... of the broader community and not just a student who will be here for a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  showed us, for comparison, her first comics page and one of the pages she ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most ... acclimating us to the world of comic writing. She spent the first part of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office ... , check out their Tumblr page where you will find out: Who are the 2012

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012