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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important

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

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the ... see a 25-ton, 3-story tall steam engine. It's beautiful. The house is ... ), but you can find pictures on the Internet here. It will be exciting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  about it. This year, I'm going to be extra and do a bloggers wrapped ... , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... to be pretty satisfying. Bloggers Wrapped, Wrapped First, the basics

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... , washers) it can hold. According to Diane Soderholm, the Education Director ... 've learned over and over in the GEL program. It's our instinct to push the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... Gomez-Pena. It really is pretty exciting. I write this entry today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to overcast day began with a light drizzle. Though simple rain is never enough

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I ... written by an MIT blogger, by all means link to it below. Academics Mind ... (Mollie): It's okay not to be the best http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the ... education will be done. I wonder how it will feel to feel that silence when ... I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had ... entertaining Youtube viewers. It then occurred to me that everyone might feel ... (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  her to know how much I had earned from art commissions. “Is it more ... the bills and counted them one by one. While it hurt just a tinge to see ... one. It adds a little fun to the process.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  #6. Notice how much more into the salsa dancing he is, compared to me ... MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U ... any student group that asked us.) Well, I think it's time to open this ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  ; “People of Beaveria!” said Schmillius, “It is time for us to cease this ... , lengthier message, carved deeply into the rock, as if its creators wanted to ... our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the lost

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  's mom had prepared a late lunch of fish and porridge. It's good to not ... [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don't show up in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form ... . It all began with the 2012 Class Council emailing everyone with the ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  herself on the keyboard. As she put it, "This is the type of song where you ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  you don’t know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a ... learning curve, i’ve grown to enjoy it! i’m currently interested in AI ... , MITERS and the forge.) Wtf is ham radio and how do you get into it EAs

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics competition — announced that its cofounder, MIT Professor Woodie Flowers, had ... . They say never meet your heroes, but I am here to tell you that Woodie is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006