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  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  've missed you! After CPW, I was sick for nearly two weeks, and I got better ... colleagues from Princeton, Swarthmore, and Wellesley. (Check out the rest of the meetings, and the schedule for upcoming meetings in California, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  ’Hare airport was delayed, and it took over fourteen hours to get to ... to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  the fact that our ECs are volunteers and have jobs and other commitments ... temporarily and unexpectedly unavailable. But there may be other reasons. I ... her spam filter. My suggestion is that if you email your EC and don

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions Blogging Year 3 is going to be unparalleled. I'll shut up now and give you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... properly and I threw a couple of forms out because my handwriting was sloppy. Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  of Financial Aid, and 9 current MIT students -- can now be viewed ... ; alumni, and the generally curious), and now it's a reality. So, if you ... 'll find the blogs of MIT Admissions Officers Ben Jones and Bryan Nance, as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... , November 11. I saw Hot Hot Heat on a previous tour swing through Boston, and ... bands come through. Within 2 miles of MIT (and within 5 subway stops), you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  On Sunday, Phil (MIT '07), Irene (MIT '08), and I (MIT '07) got lunch ... Unfortunately, Carter's job is so awesome and amazing that he can't tell us ... consulting firm, and is working on the eBay account. The eBay complex reminds

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... a project and a long amount of time recovering from the all

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple ... , and frozen dinners, cooking is the kind of skill you’ll be glad you ... , has a huge variety of cooking shows that are informational and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  , lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but ... touched, and only knew about because someone else was sweating over it ... a while, and am glad it happened the way it did. I spoke in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student ... preserve its communities. For one, our murals are being painted over, and we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA ... Construction) - course 6's most time consuming and soul crushing class which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

   midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at ... experience, both from the storytelling workshop (which was amazing and I highly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch ... this year. I sung along where nobody could hear me (hopefully), and laid

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  -fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his ... his parents and therefore kills his father and marries his mother by ... children, causing his son zeus to hate him and eventually overthrow him

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch the marathon. The track was lined with cheering families and friends

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023