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  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your ... , here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT. It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... inside a subway or a taxi. Some of the other admission staff have written

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody else: go to MIT for reward of hot shower. 10:50 AM: Walk back to Next

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  So here's the new plan: instead of me always spending all week ... , anecdotes, lots of links, and coherent structure, and then only getting around ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to ... of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... gyms and free practice hours for members of the teams). We have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  This entry will employ reverse chronology, kind of like "Memento," which I have never seen, or that episode of "Seinfeld," which I have seen ... seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  highlight who the professors are outside of MIT. And the videos are truly ... of preparing this post, contributing their time and voices and ... series and the experience of being on the TwT team, in the words of the Tea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... . Some of them already know where they are living, and maybe they even ... advisor my sophomore year.  Here is my advice! And also some descriptions of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52 ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  overall snapshot of my listening habits. Then I remembered that 2018 was the ... , which I streamed at least 50 times over the course of a week, on my top 100 playlist? I don't even recognize at least a third of the songs on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was repulsed by the smell of industrial fumes along the New Jersey Turnpike

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end-of-school-year beginning-of-summer post, and it feels like so much has happened since classes ... institute required classes!! YAYY!!  And learned SO MUCH and I am proud of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... sponsorship group boldly asked panels of businesspeople for money. For the three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  off every day, leaving you with 1) an invariable daily sense of ... . 1. Control your thoughts. Do not think of anything violent or ... protective shield of white light, or in a safe place. Telepathic EBEs may get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don ... sent out postcards confirming the receipt of your form, but apparently ... dot edu. You haven't answered by question in any of the past few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... were all working out the details of this particular arrangement, Sam '09

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But ... conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... really transformed into the type of person who leads those headache

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... vast majority of people who apply aren't admitted. See it as a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  of January, but he wasn't certain." There is no "deadline," as we ... answered me but I just want see your point of view. Here is the original ... applications. I've seen a couple of these cases so far this year. "I look at last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005