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• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no ... . Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... finished with the vast majority of your college applications within the next

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  whatever. In the first half of the course, each lovely transformation and ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my ... classes. The first ten weeks or so straddled a slender line between

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  , during a pandemic, during the first week of school? Surely it could not ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  introduce myself: Name? Theo. Year? First-Year/Frosh/The Young One ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story ... say. First, as many of you know, Marilee has built her career around ... anxiety. Many are understandably concerned that the momentum of this mission

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they ... from the dome." BUT it is not any of these things. No, MIT hasn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  Correspondent Jim Fallows. In the lead story of the magazine's first-ever college ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... did, but because of the behavior of admissions officers and parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  's show choir my junior year. I was captain of the largest color guard in the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So I came to MIT and joined the cheerleading squad, of course. I came

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already ... just two weeks of living here, I’ve painted my room for the first time in ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the ... harness out of elastic bands and O rings:  Making the harness required ... length of a forearm and the height of two mugs.”  Tulle was kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston ... problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , you receive another wave of information including the i3 videos made by ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best ... Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community.) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11 ... *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  back to all of the things I had done leading up to the first application ... instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... accepted. The first time I was rejected, I felt like I had done something

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the ... ! I also did a lot of hair dyeing over the past few days, here are some ... about, including one of the new bloggers! I'm so grateful to be here at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  that's the whole point of a technology showcase but let me FEEL!) I'm a ... a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge, and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025