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  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I ... -solving going on. Take that, Mystery Hunt. From the front, Richard '06 is Richard

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

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... distraction. I became a "mature senior." It's just that last weekend, I slipped. I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and ... is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum ... years. I hope this entry goes a small way in helping to reduce that stress

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up ... destination I was shown was quickly qualified by the fact that, had I arrived in ... small town living, the recurring bit I’ve landed on is that, at the very

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone ... cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  to do this before exams or when I’m stuck in a place that doesn’t have ... addition, here is a list of kitchen items that I have found useful to have ... so that they are not as large. Put the sweet potatoes in a casserole

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  understand. Erons ’12, also Course 2 (“I major in Awesome.”), is taking a break ... in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course ... Fluids Engineering II) problem set. 2.006 is the second in a two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... conference, and very informative. I didn't know a lot about admissions before I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  -oriented school. Ohohoho, boy was I in for a surprise! The first night was ... provide that), I was really impressed by the a capella groups, especially the MIT Logarithms. Let me just say that I also made a fool of myself by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  perspectives (OHMYGOSH how am I gonna represent myself well in 30 seconds and ... place to speak about living spaces that I haven’t experienced. If you do ... rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  know that this is the place where I can grow, in all sorts of ways (in ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... to do, I went with her on a whim to what became the source of my wrench

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  Stark is a very, very, very long process. So in the first week of June ... for people that don't know, I am a Figma lover. So, of course, I decided ... makes a very cool scrapbook for us to see how far we came in terms of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you ... broken. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the floors had a Wii on, we did

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  . It was then that I decided I wanted to do theater in high school. So ... a very strong theatrical arts program that anyone could take part in ... -round, including a One Acts festival in the fall and a hectic IAP show that involves

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO ... pasta. How about a tomato?" (Hi, Mom.) Aside from that, we bought some ... a half, since painting is allowed in Senior House and Institute White

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  sure that your body has enough juice to function.) There is also a lab ... write a paper based on the research I’ve been doing for the past year and ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  that things started seriously rocking out. I had a list of my favorite ... , unbelievably, brain-screamingly difficult. I mean, it goes without saying that I ... then the #8 seed was Dave Shin '05, who is apparently like a superhero or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  name, but Norbert is just a cool name as it is). One thing I didn't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005