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  Worlds within worlds

  

  already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house ... 'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your decision about where to go to school. But will the slice be what you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a ... neighbors to see Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage in a Fenway theater ... experience, but totally worth it to see those MIT references in a Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing materials, and Matt already did a great job of addressing that topic.) (Thanks to Christina for finding the picture for me.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and ... “girly girls” were smart. When I grew up a little I started to feel the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  draw of this city is to find different ways to spend a lot of money ... too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell ... credit from being a varsity athlete, so I don’t technically need to take ... don’t believe it, to be honest. Sidequest 5: Pull a cool hack

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... obliged to finish. That was a great tactic back in middle school, when I had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  stuff, so after some consideration we decided to do a little race where we ... [annotation note="jebby & fatima, kai & uzay to name a few ... .  however, this does not stop us from trying to make the claim into a fact

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  high school, it was easy to find something big to reach for. Is there a ... above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  “how to save a life” by the fray. the chorus goes like this: where did i ... ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  -around puzzle to find a coin. Mystery Hunt is a big deal at Random Hall. A friend ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  finding out which feast day corresponds to a saint with a particular ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... appearance.) You force yourself to concentrate on finding trends in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  city. a whole city to explore and live in, trying to find ways to be part ... . a medium where i have a message to try and convey and convince people ... to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs ... lead to dead ends, but I somehow managed to find my way back to the main ... backtracked a bit until I found a detour to the road and walked along the street

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we ... things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... who want to make a lot of money go into the financial sector, people who ... find out they don't like a field or said field is not faring so well

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  living there last spring. Rui and I have a tradition where I go up to her ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so ... similar. At one point, I saw both of them listening to it. It's a good

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022