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  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to ... Bridge application is being used in place of the MIT application). Q: I've already

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the ... blogged about, unfortunately in the same entry in which I posted a really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off at 4am. I submitted my very last application at 2am, couldn't fall

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

  Yay, weekend!

  

  that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  in the City" on my iPod. There is basically nothing better than walking ... not to get skin cancer. I got to prance around in my new polka ... road for Cool Dogs, my absolute favorite summer treat. You can buy them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school ... -Man Shoes, featured in my MIT college application![/caption] When I got to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  spot for the summer, the friendly neighborhood Starbucks. I was in for a ... I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... thinking that it was in February; I don’t know why, I didn’t even “get ... . Cecilia’s Parish in Boston, where I go every Sunday, and proudly belted out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych ... ! They can be fun!]

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... they take in oxygen, mit feels bigger now. i feel bigger now. i feel like i don’t exist solely in my room any more. i’m in two classes, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  "pre-med" track, so you can major in anything at all and have access to ... have lots of pre-med students in them or not, I'm just linking to them ... News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... beaver is sitting on eight ivy leaves. I'll let you fill in the blanks on ... letters "ILTFP" hidden in it. I like the inclusion of "ILTFP" as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  down some stretches of road are so flat, I swear you can see your own ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a ... of interest to underleveraged students in the developing world, then I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  night in Hong Kong, I leaned over the balcony in the common room and watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  can only be content in the woods for so long. I want to contribute. Not ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019