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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 ... would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student ... minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  hope you guys are hanging in there and not stressing too much. I'll write ... Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually leave campus until I eventually realized that I barely leave my dorm, let alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... opt for absentee ballots at home. I'll be voting in Connecticut this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... . Bittersweet. I look around in the places I used to call home and they feel like hollow shells with memories echoed in its crevices, both good and bad. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  nothing and no one you will be better for it. I would tell you not to be so scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  you about new awards, achievements, etc. However, we would prefer if you would instead include these updates in your Midyear Report. The MIT ... , and I'll post another entry so you can have any missing materials

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds It's crunch time for college decisions.

  

  With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who ... would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the ... admissions in a full time capacity. Over the course of my career, I have ... in this forum? Absolutely not! I welcome all students to the table to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  I've received this link multiple times today (thanks Kevin and Susan), so I might as well post it before I go see Fanaa... From this week ... Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation ... , and Flows in Biological Systems. Mainly I am learning that I am not so ... cool class in that I'm just like "equations, equations, modeling (on the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  actually know anything about. Places I've been are highlighted in blue. (Also ... reporting to every day this coming summer is in MADRID. OhmygodI ... can in the next few months. Any suggestions for weekend travel while I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk ... Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022