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  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  hosts at WashU. The conference was attended by nearly 400 US university ... independent college admissions counselors. It was a great opportunity for me to ... me, I got to learn about many different schools worldwide, schools that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a writer for Xena: Warrior Princess and that he could maybe get me that Bruce ... Ruth and me, two of the top five culinary critics in the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a ... , Hopkinton: Mile 0 Petey drops me off at the start line. He takes a few pictures, hands me an extra battery pack just in case, and then tells me to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  particularly brutal winter days where the wind very nearly could have knocked me ... email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me ... nearly-retired Course 6-1 graduate living in Indianapolis. I assume that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for ... heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... this somewhere near the top of my list. I am so, so, so, so excited. I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  frustrating. So why not take a class that requires me to write– why not take a class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  they helped me think outside of the box to make plans for the near future ... -registration helped me make friends at Harvard and how our friendship has evolved since ... with my friends about my worries. They assured me that nothing was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  near the start of week 3. Then another hackathon, and then the final ... weirds me out but it turns out that some people still spell it that way and ... open on my browser was the website we were working on. This frustrated me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  bummed out anyways. pset 0, which was supposed to be a warmup, very nearly frustrated me to the point of tears. not a good sign!!11!1 6 ... going to wreck me because the problem sets are really tough, but hopefully

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  the same code all day? All questions that concerned me and the next 40 ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended ... : Rush out of the ridiculously muggy apartment. For reasons unknown to me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... me. I didn’t even know what school I wanted to go to, let alone what I ... it more together than me). Worry #2: I became less sure I would fit in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near ... such that procrastinators like me can still land an internship in mid ... asked me a couple of questions about what I was studying (Economics), what

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me ... not love tech. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still adore math and science ... friends keep me company. That’s more than the number of my personal cells

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  essays my neighbor gave me as a graduation present. I went on long morning ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of this, and then: MIT. The month I've spent here thus far reminds me of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... constant chatter that is around me - Japanese people speak so fast with so ... sentence from the Wikipedia article made me die a little on the inside: "It

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  me. He closed his eyes and heaved a sigh. Turning to me, he grumbled ... wit. He asked me if I’ve been to the UK before, and I told him that it ... Line, my heavy suitcase and jet-lagged state convinced me to take the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  . The last thought nearly brought me to tears, so my mind skated off of it ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th ... me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a

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

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... actually got to meet nisha & the person who lived in my room before me ... much my glasses shielded me from dust and other minuscule flying debris

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  !” there’s p-sets and a weather intent on killing me. Close enough. What ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... , assuring me that she would save me a spot next semester. And she did! The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  admitted high school seniors. He stayed with me for one night before crashing ... finally outgrew me, but now he is much taller than I am. [caption id ... , they broke up during her junior year of college. Near the end of her time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022