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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Square, Coolidge Corner, Beacon Hill, the North End, just to name a few ... music: I love nearly all kinds of music, but if asked to name a few, I'd have to include Sting, Annie Lennox, Seal, Alison Kraus and Union Station

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... team challenge (school spirit??) seemed to be straight out of "The ... is supposed to be a new kind of reality show, I guess I shouldn't be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering ... noted MIT professors have helped to select the freshman class while I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the mail, only to find NOTHING from MIT. So, I have taken matters into my own hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... 're still planning to be on schedule. Hopefully everyone would have their ... gift!). But, I've been trying to keep people realistic through this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note ... Tech is still getting printed and distributed to the dorms, so I was able to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This Tuesday, the Class of 2019 got together to celebrate the time we've spent together so far, and to toast the next two years of our MIT journey ... where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to ... just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you ... hard to think coolly today. Instead, distract yourself. To help with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community ... . The center launches five to eight exhibits each year highlighting the ... to campus. The museum itself is located in the old Media Lab building

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp ... -http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... and dads with small children to local college students to dred ... composers in order to arrange and perform these songs with a live orchestra

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  , does it take so long? Well, think about everything that needs to happen ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... all of the fee waiver requests (which we're happy to grant). The day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  on campus, with almost four hundred easy-going people who like to hang ... , solar rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a bright dining hall, and a ... you! I chose to live in Next my freshman year because I wanted to be in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham ... was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006