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  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... they are of value to us in the process. A number of students called me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... goal is to put your satellite in three different columns of air and try ... know that if you get a skeleton to kill a creeper, it drops a music disc

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... exams in order to get a grade I could achieve with a nontrivial amount of ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  room). Now get off my back, Mom. Uh, I mean.. now on to our regularly ... I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome ... Office. I also love getting discounts as an MIT affiliate at the Boston ... being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  same again but i think sharing is one of the best ways to get through ... oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  this sticker as part of the (in)famous "how to make (almost) anything ... being able to express those realms of myself on the back of my laptop in ... , that I strive to live up to, Especially, "She is clothed in strength and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to ... of the major VCs in the country," she says. "One guy said to me, 'That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  rest, I was completely back to normal. The issue is that I'm behind in ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  I've been to. But also when it's 70 people cramped down in the ... really hits when you go at 12 in the morning. we go to the one near harvard ... 's difficult to compile footage all together and i'm really trying my best. but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... [/caption] But how did this shark plush get so popular? Blahaj’s rise to ... introduced by Ikea, the Korall Fisk, to a picture taken in 2006. Then in 2008

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  in and said, in the most innocent voice, "Hi, yeah...we want to go to ... it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... 're writing your essays, you don't want to be generic. You have to keep in mind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange ... , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... student thing to do." This is the best compliment I've received in the past ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church" (thanks, Wikipedia) - but it's two words.  Which means that you get weird

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... in, but in August, asymmetric tank tops with thin straps started to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  adults in black belts. So, parents, you don't need to worry anymore about sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired ... and I fell over in shock. The ninja police did nothing to rescue me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  . I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014