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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... volunteering (teaching English I think?) They told us about volunteering in ... . After eating, we left our hostel and found ourselves in a fruit and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... restaurant in Boston? Cambridge? Nah, my parents wanted Maseeh Dining. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in ... blessing part first: Even back in my old high school - a public school - some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  ) come in after the January 1 deadline. We're understanding and ... yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... sending things in four times.   Don't waste your money

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... prep courses are helpful in that you have a structured environment that ... in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO ... in this ridiculous focus, my obsession to finish a perfect drawing. As

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... reading and discussion about water and sanitation interventions in the ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  Alright, my first serious, thought-out blog entry in quite some time ... , but a few key ones. 1) Classes are harder 2) Classes are in your major ... ). Unless you kicked some serious butt in a crazily academic high school or

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise ... application I had a pretty solid game plan: Stress band, life in the country ... available (I actually think I got Part I in about four hours after it was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the ... 'm currently sitting in Kresge, ready to liveblog! There's just five minutes to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the ... March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes ... was the most confusing thing that you found in the reading assignment? What other questions do you have about any topics that appeared in the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know because we were both in Beauty and the Beast last year and both as Silly ... freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures ... is like a year in Hollywood time, so it's like going back in time for ... fell in love with the movie. CLIP 2: (DAVEY robs a bank. Lots of money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  attended MIT in many, many years. Not many apply, but when they do, even if ... , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but ... in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... are people who have already graduated still in this pool. There is ... glassblowing class in the future sometime. But, it's pretty unlikely. Greek Life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021