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  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to ... knew it was going to be cold. I had packed my tried-and-true winter gear ... not accomplishing anything - it was far too tempting to just sit and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  our IAP listing, and Mystery Hunt!!, see this year's), or to just go home, chillax, and do something that you always wanted to do (like ... realized that there wasn't much to see from the outside, so I left, haha. IMO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and won $15 ... insight into each game and figure out how much luck played into my ... : sleep, social life, and school. MIT wants to identify the best student

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... to bring the site back up as soon as we possibly can, and the deadline ... know about. Send it to the usual Admissions address and be sure to put

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

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

  

  increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... senior friends showed up to that last party, and I'll admit I was more than ... getting in,[/annotation] and when we got to the courtyard we found that the

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

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly ... airports I've ever been to and the Parkway kicks the Turnpike's you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  Holland together). Stay tuned and I'm trying to be less busy! =p --- Okay ... I'm sad and have no one to tag, I decided to tag my best friends, the ... school, and my parents were really worried that my English was not up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  records your shot, displays it on a monitor sitting next to you, and then ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at ... around and it turned out that I would get to shoot again. Now, there's no

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... , my friends and I spent too much time hanging out and catching up on ... 'd had before and could relate to each other just as easily, if not more so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  trip to Hasbro I chatted with Don Fardie, one of the model shop guys, and ... Hasbro to see if they'd be interested in producing and manufacturing them ... much more control over design decisions and manufacturing details! Then

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  most drastic decision I’ve made, ever. Saying goodbye to my cat and having to explain to her that she would still be well fed and protected in ... managed to break away and get on the plane. If there’s anything I learnt

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  , and so much more. anyways, i work in development engineering, where we ... excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about ... ’s not that one draws to me much more than the other, rather, the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  -chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear ... only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... weighed. I found myself spending days and weeks trying to count everything

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... application. Send this via US Mail to MIT Admissions; be sure your full name and ... to be considered, and students do not need to audition to take music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  felt sympathetic to this community that I wasn’t even a part of and knew ... lottery, and I liked that I was basically guaranteed to live there in the ... to recognize that the harmless humor, absurdity, and general nonsense

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  enormous bowls of candy, ready to greet costumed individuals and pass out the ... never be too safe), it leapt to life and shouted, startling us and ... would be too old to be gallivanting through the streets and asking for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... application to be a volunteer member of an advisory group in my city, and never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books ... interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art ... and struggling to obtain for all of high school. I wondered if a daily

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024