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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  's Wheel (which was actually challenging!), cooking classes, and a Walking ... Toscaninis or Christina's), and I'm becoming a fan of the Boston Red Sox. I ... . Also, tell us something that delves deeper into your personality or a

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

  CPW Festival

  

  event... And this is the "after" picture, a half hour into the event ... Association sponsored some mini-golf, with prizes for a whole in one. Sadly ... silkscreen their own tee shirts. OrigaMIT had a table and instructions for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I've been a bit sad this week, and many of you have been wondering why: "you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  . Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy ... . Today's The Ethicist column had a pretty ridiculous college admissions ... this, some students have discovered that they can produce a list of all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... made her application very strong. But a single element of one ... find "the formula." I don't think "oh, that girl got a 1600 on the SAT

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... . i was either in a powerful enough place where i could slip into that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal ... credible and concerning information this past semester and launched a review. A few weeks ago, we informed you of our findings that serious and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started Tuesday evening with a breakdown in Walker Memorial, and when I got back, I ... I was slowing down. I got distracted quite a bit, but still managed to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... , a few minutes from the dome"]Hayden Library[/annotation] or some other ... at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  mom along. she got to spent a few days with my entire host family, which was an insane crossover. this was after I got into MIT, so I brought a ... me in 2017 and Nisha had given her a MIT tour, they were all very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Every place I went, everything felt a little bit off. I don't like being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  With Parent's Weekend coming up, I thought I'd reflect a bit on the ... other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of Norwalk, California. It's a beautiful house with a big backyard featuring my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and flew across the country for California where I am currently lying on a ... personal space when they get a little too close. I have decided that I will

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  breakfast, nearly fell asleep in every lecture as a result, rushed from my ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two-hour flight, during which I met a matriculating Harvard Medical School student

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those ... dress up, wear robes, and have a formal three course dinner together ... 'm taking a psychology class to fill a HASS requirement and Cambridge students

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... someone who has a crush on you that you don't return their feelings. Useful

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... biennial was opening this year on March 20, just a few days before the start ... Wikipedia: The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023