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  Meet the Admissions Officers With today's next post, I'll begin a summer-long occasional series introducing you to the MIT…

  

  introducing you to the Admissions Officers for the 2005-2006 school year. Some ... . We'll be gaining four new Admissions Officers, though, over the next ... those new staff members: the awesome Alia Burton.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ,000 scholarship and goes on to the national competition, said Clarissa Sandoval ... Flowers student to attend MIT, thanks to scholarships Student ... Technology in the fall. Eletha Flores' dream always was to attend the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the Esplanade, a nice park along the Charles River, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  to spend those 12 units on Life, instead. And to us that means being ... -quadruple-booking-yourself-and-forgetting-about-all-four-things hard Because you’re-too-busy-trying-to-prevent-your ... just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... (and other delicious things) they've made to celebrate Pi Day (which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to enroll) on record. The numbers won't completely settle for a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I ... visitors to MIT, “The Social Beaver” focuses on the community living and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are ... 't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve ... ! my friend got to visit while she was working on a 2.009 (a senior Mech ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  flying cars. Many of the startups have gone on to join incubators like Delta V, MassChallenge, and even YCombinator. Then they go on to raise ... our spring Launch Competition, I got the opportunity to sit in on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... I thought to myself, you're right Hasan. It is pretty dope. Not for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  an uninterrupted 20 minutes, approx. 9 am, my room on the fifth floor ... everywhere, without ever having to focus. Marshall McLuhan * * * * * for more ... Boston Dorm Room contest winner! and hey, while you have your headphones

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  I have three final exams this week, so what better time to be watching videos! No, not on YouTube, but on MIT Tech TV (http://techtv.mit.edu/about/)! If you think MIT students are too smothered with work to let their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday ... we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... just sitting there, trying to ignore the incessant Beach Boys music they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... Up until last Thursday, my only on-air experience was the one time I won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005