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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  reading your applications so much and it came to me about the time I walked ... surprise to me that my brother and I both still honor this tradition over the ... your applications remind me of jigsaw puzzles...think about it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I ... like it best when the "girls" wave at me in the "infinite corridor" or in ... ). Everyone in the house has truly made me feel like a part of the family this

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... with a free sticker that said "HUG ME, I DONATED BLOOD TODAY" stuck to my ... , I've been traveling on horseback with a group of mounties. They let me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  Vinayak '09 told me that Sunday night, genuinely pleased. "'Oh I was just ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... knowing me better than I knew myself, he convinced me that we should take a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do ... 't have been that bad, though - rather than immediately turn me down (which ... looking too late in the year), she asked me if I was okay with starting in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  was all fine with me. If for any reason you didn't get a call, you ... the blog comments; or just drop me (or any of the other bloggers) an ... I imagine the parents would probably tend to disagree with me on that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best ... the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... 's what led me to see life the way I do: The world isn't just something you ... people said to me, but having fun anyway. I'll talk about this more in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  I might as well go” attitude. Well . . . MIT proved me wrong big ... loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me ... you are, I've seen you on Facebook." Me: "Oh. Well... nice to meet you

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that ... often made me dread talking to people during entire application and ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  Ina Garten's recipe for apple butternut squash soup. Let me tell you ... (trust me, I made it work). Then I added vegetable broth instead of water ... top. It brought me closer to God. Thanks, Ina. In an interesting bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17-year-old undergrad applicant and me as a 21-year-old grad school ... those knock-your-socks-off genius whiz kids. My education at MIT turned me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  chemical change, so what gives? This has now been bothering me for over a ... rapids white?" is really driving me nuts. If there's anything I've learned ... are smarter than me. So I'm sure some of you know the answer to this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  physically capable of walking in, and c) would cause me to be approximately 3 ... . Mike asked the kind of question that makes me squirm. Mollie, is there ... a hard question for me to answer, because I tend to have an internal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My ... . Wednesday morning found me driving to Hackensack for the Northern NJ school ... . Next time I am taking Laura, Akash, or Erin with me - it's as simple as

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... 's me," I said to the car. "This just isn't going to work out." I think ... Budget. I can hear all of you collectively booing me. It's okay, I deserve

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  An MIT '09 emailed me today and asked if MIT had its own radio ... , February 19, 2003 * You Got Me Rockin' (Rolling Stones) * Roll Over Beethoven ... Ross) * All of Me (Diana Ross) * Our Love Is Here to Stay (Diana Ross

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my ... sandwich. A few days later, Jimmy brought me a bag of the nicest corned beef I think I have ever had and told me to go make sandwiches for myself

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so ... with me. I was inconsiderate, angry, and just generally made life

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025