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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . Favorite movies: Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Philadelphia ... won an Annie Look-a-Like contest in Chicago when I was seven years old ... Literature Favorite things about MIT: I love that the people take their studies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... shoes." "I'm going to be really annoyed if I have to buy a dominatrix ... many quotes about lesbians" Academic Life "i can do my midterm

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... rather than drone on and on about how much I dislike this pseudo-prison, I ... remember how honored I was when the sassy fashion queen herself gave me her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  designation. In any case, it's pretty stinkin' cool, and I can't believe I ... I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a ... I’m writing to announce that the application for first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and watched How I Met Your Mother and ate a chocolate cupcake. Then came the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  kitchen space than, well, buying a $200 pressure cooker and air fryer in one ... classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... , there are no wrong choices - only good choices, and better ones. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  always wear these in Bavaria? Because they are kind of uncomfortable. I know this because one time, as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, I ... something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed

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

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , looking through my archives, I can see that we were in fact having 5 ... buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a ... becuase I don't understand quite how IMAP works on Eudora 6.2. No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old person here. In fact, I am 35 years old, almost two times the age when I ... 't miss being the Small Doctor in Training. I like that now I can give clear

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree. ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the junk yard and the trash and in school recycling bins. But he never got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  ’s my general understanding of how to approach tarot. I’m going to model ... tarot deck is how the artwork really tells the story, which I’ll try to ... , I can’t help feeling like my world is smaller again; I’ve already

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  . Now, I know what you're thinking. How can the folder possibly hold a ... adolescence. 2017 is a revolutionary year for me. It's almost eerie how I can ... kickboxing every now and then so I know how to duck now. In attempt to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  So…I'm not sure exactly where September went, but in plain English ... rushed to the art supply store to buy materials that I didn't end up using ... quicker and go to sleep? and I’m just like, yo, mom, that’s not how it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  Cambridge! ------------------------------------- Can I fill in YES on the ... /or spouse away from MIT with the promise that she/he can return in the fall ... as I write this and should be finished in a few days. Your host will

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007