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• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  more important than quantity. And some people, I know, do have more to ... , and if they do, I'd trust that. Or, if they recommend paring it down to ... with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  importantly, I have the headspace to just enjoy the sights and sounds of fall ... themselves to do things that bring you joy and relaxation. Go outside! Bake a ... live and where you’ll be in a year, so try to give this fall a bit of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... face. I descended the steps to the subway and scanned the pearlescent red

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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

  

  the displays at CES and wonder what it means to be "marketable." Am I ... are probably highschoolers. As much as I don't want you to relate to ... you. It's hard to feel good enough. I'm at MIT, and I still don't feel

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

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... . Not all of IAP has to be crampons and ice axes though, there's still

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room ... experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... " fashioned out of string, ping pong balls, and what looks to be a wooden frame

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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