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  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... competitions? etc. What do you write about in your short answer essays? in your ... well in a challenging curriculum. Next, it's time for your teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT ... ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... on Friday, January 13, 2006. Team registration is now open. Like in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  are even more limited now that my bike is locked up in the bike room ... completely transform it in one week, while they send the original owners on ... family went to my parents' friend's restaurant in Rhode Island. If you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... ! Favorite movies: Rear Window, It's a Wonderful Life, Dancer in the Dark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  pizza and bourbon chicken from the mall, so day 2 doesn't count.) In my ... . (Can you pick me out in that picture? Let's play Where's Mollie!) I also ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online ... , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only ... in The Waiting Room that many EA admits have been wondering how they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... , in fact, there was an O'Reilly puzzle of sorts, and it was one of the ... teammates scouring the libraries for a copy of this new book. We were all in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... bus from Emeryville, CA, another fifty-six hours later. All in all, the trip totals seventy-eight hours of travel, with a four-hour layover in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  some fun with it. Writing it was ridiculously fun. Let's dive in now ... around his small, money-sucking apartment, a pinprick in the vast mix of ... , dressed in her usual dark-leather gear, shaking her head and sighing. “You

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a ... bridge and sailing around in swan boats, wandering through the Boston

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring ... , and more that we'll check out later in this tour!   Roberts Field A ... varsity teams call Roberts home. In the fall, women and men's soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I was both working in the Navy full-time and attending college full ... . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align ... school, I danced at home for fun, twirling through my kitchen in socks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... , but I figured in an effort of maintaining my brand of transparency I ... break, I went to visit my family on Big Island in Hawai'i. I took this as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... that in allston and almost threw up because of the smog. but!!! there

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live ... entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog ... in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022