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  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  to the MIT Museum to retrieve it. Tragically, someone else had claimed ... 'm not sure it belongs anywhere. So, back to Halloween, which was a week ... never remembered to move the box inside, so the janitor threw it away 8

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  we can drive you back to your dorm with them. Oh, and we'll pay for it ... . Because then I can take pictures of it and show them to you. Yay. ... (awesome) new room (pictures to come later, when it looks nice enough that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... important to hold on to your dreams. Here’s my anectodal addendum: It was ... catch-22… while coding allowed me to produce geometry exponentially... it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes, but I'm happy the summer went so well - it's good to be productive and ... weekends. But now that it's time to return back to the academic world, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  out? The website just says 'July'..." We expect to receive this year's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to ... . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  (they’re welcome to come visit us but can’t actually live here!), because ... '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... [annotation note="to this day, no one has ever told me whose foot it is and why ... what it means for a day to feel like it’s NINETY DEGREES (ah yes

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before, otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the door.) Made good time to Hartford; checked into the Hilton (didn't see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... 've constantly reminded myself that I didn't come to MIT expecting easy. It was by ... . Nearly two years of the Institvte, I can't see myself wanting to be

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  application becomes complete, it goes to the staff to be read. For applications ... longer and read the folder when it becomes complete (we know you can't help ... evaluate per day?" It depends on the reader. In our process, the more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is impossible!” and back again. But true to my procrastinatorial roots, I can ... too much not to enlarge, enshrine, and share it with the world. Well

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  to volunteer.  It was the nicest food bank I've ever been too, and our ... home, but it's okay.  I've learned so far that I definitely want to work ... bought a cactus from home depot to keep me company, but it's not the same

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech ... this. If you don't believe me, the lowest score you can possibly get on the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  -2 years. A pal gruffly rejected my hug; it later comes to pass they do not ... —the founder—was perfectly nice about it. Job rejection can be simply a matter of ... —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... with practice questions. After rehearsals, it was time to play for real ... (to this day!). So, to (hopefully) make it up to Anjali, here's a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... Punjabi and it doesn't help that the dialogues are supposed to be gibberish ... completely switched isn't the most fun combination. it took me very long to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004