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  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  used to watch Smurfs as a child; I even had the video game on Atari. OK ... Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally

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

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... fun & games; I've conducted 2 Central Meetings (CMs) already, with four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  really cool to see all the poems come together into a larger work of poetry ... just took them. because I knew I wanted to take them more than I cared ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  "The Social Enterprise Conference brings together top leaders ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  many things together. 2. Don't forget to bring your glasses My ... Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college

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

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive steakhouse (after the wedding) - Learned to play a card game called Hands &

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  mochi together and cut out parts of magazines and glued them to folded ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of ... goal, by the end of four years, is to be able to pull together a tasty ... ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  put together because the colors all move from area to area easily ... warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap ... As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  the game! You don't have to be a prodigy or virtuoso or certified ... . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from crazy college party to mild adult dinner party"]adult things ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019