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  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  investment banking. Many of my friends who went into these fields majored in ... "toughest to get into." And where is MIT on the lists of "School Runs Like ... application. Some common supplements we see would include: recording of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  (Jeff Bridges) teaches Cody about what is truly important. one of my ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT ... doubt, the most important and most significant decision I made as a ... of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  research. Fostering a collaborative environment is an important part of the ... of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be overwhelming, but give it all you got. Everyone’s afraid of failing. In each of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Engineering) but this picture made me envious of everyone who is. The bridge is ... important shipping canals by crossing over the Elbe River. Without the water ... current 4 million tons per year to 7 million tons of goods in 2015. Some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate them into our celebrations. Enjoy these photos! [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  simulations into reality, and vice versa. World of Wires is an all ... both split up the stage into different areas and gave us lots of places ... audience walked into the theater, they saw the front of the stage completely

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  ears For just the life of a breeze – then extinguishes itself into ... enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  . We carried the shopping cart down a flight of stairs into our apartment ... blankets on clearance at Ross, and cut pieces of felt into eyes. Put it all ... to our apartment and out into the world. Here’s a few snippets of Carl

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into ... (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  ), I also dug back into my old MIT email and re-read a lot of the very ... but I was locked into a subscription for at least the rest of the year ... those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  bit by bit, they blurred into beautiful sea glass the color of trees and ... A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  online forums, you can't help but wonder at your chances of getting into ... , as long as enough of it is thrown into the effort. Crops of college ... above the pandemonium and trying to instill a sense of order into the kids

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... lasted until the beginning of 9th grade. Without going into too much detail ... Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  . Sometimes I throw a song into a post for the sake of making a post, you know ... is an important part of Homestuck. Trust me. Couldn't find the song on ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  be a significant exodus out of Maseeh, either from people moving into ... must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... arbitrary criteria without doing any research into them. Here were my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal ... dinners six nights a week, as well as plenty of snacks. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024