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  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , would you guys retract your acceptance letter if I get in?" I'd say that ... his reading applications in the four years I've worked in the office ... people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local ... ") to that point. Who would have thought that many years later I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt ... part of one's identity. I love my neighborhood back in Kentucky, and its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester GPA and a D in 10.490. I’ve never gotten a D in my life, and I’m sure many of you are in the same boat. It’s quite a humbling feeling; one I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  - This album was so empowering in ways I cannot even word. I would listen ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  your essay would make the difference in a decision. I wouldn't worry ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... . even if u watch translated into english ones, i would recommend u try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  Services, just checked in via a comment and I thought it would be best to ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  paintings." Little did I know, I would actually see these paintings in real ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  opportunity. I'd imagine that KVPY students would be very competitive in the ... ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

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

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I ... nerd that I am, I freaked out and ran upstairs when I saw this in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.   ... killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... blog I would note that I was wearing spandex with pockets (!!) from Big 5 ... the forge, in coffee shops scattered from Denmark to Arizona. I was good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But ... recording things. I tend to keep important dates and notes in my head, which

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... out. I thought that my friend Eric would find this amusing, so I took a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012