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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  someone to 7/11 to get snacks. parading in the middle of the streets of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting ... -distant, of course) a few times in the park near my house. we danced to old

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  attempted to dance twice, not counting flailing around to music in the living ... . Sadly, you're not supposed to bring cameras in, so I couldn't take ... goths to nerdy goths. I dressed similar to what I often do in normal life

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  discovered how hard it is to get good pictures in the fog, especially when ... Authority which cover the region, helping commuters get to work in Boston and ... experience; there’s a little more active work I have to get done in the next

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I ... been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... with my mom. I hadn’t been back to China in six years, so it was really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... there is a world in which you don’t have to worry about erasing the same ... program to help us with remote work in the age of COVID. Alex has also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a ... Caf√© 4 yesterday: Me: Hey, how are you doing? May '11 (grinning): Hiii

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... me happy. :) So what am I taking? (Man, do I know how to get off track ... 't want to take just another language class because it gets kind of old

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... sight and tendency to zone out. Don’t ask for clarification in an ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at ... impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020