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  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the ... Square (I know, I know….give me a break, my title is long and I’m not a ... master’s at UMD and now I’m a Terrapin If anything, I can say that this

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  admissions readers that we can't take a considerably larger number than we do ... decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  that I would have such a reaction when I informed people about what I do ... of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  significant weight in the process. If you have something that is a significant ... questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... Engineering] working with this lottery I've been hearing of? Is it possible that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... catching up on a lot of science fiction shows that I've been saving up during ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  that visit, I spent a couple hours in a Borders Bookstore near Penn ... about 9 days after the first one) and I was thus assured that taking a ... packing! I do believe that this instance of the MadGrab was an all time

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  lights. Simply put, we had cabin fever. I'm a California girl who hadn ... snow I've ever seen, and I've still been trying to figure out how to ... too can prance around until you are delirious from the cold! Now that I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture ... -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the ... "pranks" I'm not sure how much I agree with the statement that hacks at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people ... in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  who don't: the MIT class ring (a.k.a. Brass Rat) is not only one of the ... on my UROP. I distracted myself briefly with a 30 minute nap and a trip ... the 2013 MIT Brass Rat: :) What up, '13s! Do you see the "13" in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  is a sign that you're doing it right! Allow a miracle to happen. As I ... excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to ... 's room. Waking up to a loud banging noise is a pretty good sign that you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  everything that I'm going to be taught in my major). There is very very little ... things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015 ... message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... those steps was moving off campus. And that is why I moved off campus for ... cat, Rory, and I live with the amazing Dan S. '17 in a tiny three-and-a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  pronto) and I found a video of me at the beginning of last year that I ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in ... So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  that it is really only one part of your application, and that in a few ... I did, online. But today I decided that was a bad move, so I switched ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  are young, i felt like i regressed a few years that night, in that way ... i'll become, a silent oath i told myself, all those years ago, that i ... i've been so busy and sad and angry about everything lately, that it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a ... :-P -- and that she'd been up in a U2 spy plane. After all those

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school ... some work done. Desk is such a great job--basically getting paid to do

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008