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  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of OpenCourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her ... another advantage of living in this great city. And what would a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film ... was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town ... power after popping into a random cafe with wireless, I discovered that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... implements pass/no record for this first semester for a reason and that's so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  (it takes a long time to compile these, even with the brief answers ... ! ------------------------------------- Rafael wrote, "wow, thats a bunch of applications! Btw, how many people are ... . ------------------------------------- Manisha wrote, "Does MIT require a Mid Year School Report from International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers ... secrets those mysterious 90%-windowless cubes would hold. (Perhaps a prison for music students who played one too many wrong notes during a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... 1958, a couple members of the MIT fraternity Lambda Alpha Chi were making ... trainer remarked how miserable it was walking across the nearly half-a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... ’m doing a [annotation note='mit international science and technology

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about ... in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  355 Massachusetts Avenue, a seven-minute walk from main campus. You may know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that ... down, and that we still exist! I first moved to WILG after I took a gap

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice water over our heads. Now, in the past year, at least a dozen engagement

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each ... as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... interpret it as a literal fight with swords if you want, but everybody knows

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I ... if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning ... other schools have this, but basically a week between finals and ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this ... was oddly disarming; spending a whole day alone wasn't something i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021