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  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  believe it just a little. Eventually you do have to start making a choice, and you make a good one--to try. You actually can be interested in the ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no ... with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... gave so much to make you into the fascinating person you are - don ... . Anyone know an eight-letter word having to do with the location of M*A

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... they complain, I like to give them a blank look, as though the concept is ... is Independent Activities Period, a time to take an interesting class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another ... interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  and put effort into making the world a better place to live in, even if ... at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... , followed by ice cream at the famous Mike's Pastries. We tried to walk off the ... : Breakfast with a friend from high school. So, clearly, there is no excuse to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners ... : the Apple Bake. This annual event celebrates fall by having the floors of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... was even more alluring because the MSA invited Yasir Qadhi to present a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  Venezuela to Germany without knowing a single German sentence. As a student, he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... applications that asked a greater variety of questions forced me to think about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  (3% of annual time) of winter break as a truly reliable time to relax. See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... *present* to you, newsfeed style, a snapshot of recent MIT festivities

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... and password.   In order to verify that you will receive a ... next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET.   To check your decision on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible ... always be the city I love more than any other. It's a lot to digest, and it ... help it tell its story to the world. It's a tremendous professional

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee ... MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  than gratitude” is a refrain commonly attributed to anne frank, but ... while i could. if i knew a certain type of person would stop talking to me the instant we went virtual i’d have tried to make different kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021