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  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  a code from the app. After biking around for half an hour, you return ... colonists used to make chocolate, from a woman in full colonial costume. Back ... Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... considered liveblogging it - pictures of a near-empty terminal and all - but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  firehose-survivors was Ana Posada. Ana, a Biology major from Lawrenceville, GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do going forward as a deferred applicant. We will (as always) release

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... : "fruitbowl", in which everyone puts fruit in a bowl and eats it together ... such an event is two-fold: It's a good excuse to just hang out and not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... the light or kept it from being absorbed or from shining right through. But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  with a friend visiting from the other coast over lunch in Central Square ... from jumps to step sequences. This was my first time taking part in a ... course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  more sleep. So we put away our red bulls from the night and got a good ... will be whispers from upperclassmen across the courtyard, bitter from a ... to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  that they were getting a call from MIT, their dream school! The room ... follow up with the students I got a chance to chat with and hear from the ... finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... play music from my laptop through a lab speaker! Now that I've finished ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  'll take a little breather from the tough work of selection to eat some soup ... . As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... 3098 applications, up about 10% from early action last year. This will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  . Awkward situations in "Shopgirl" arise from Jeremy begging for a goodnight ... Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. I expected a lot from the movie ... to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8.033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... into strands of spaghetti. Our professor obviously had a good time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to ... favored over candidates from outside the region. It made for a nervous 1 ... exercise, I got rightly rejected from a position at a startup. My interviewer

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  morning at the GSD (actually a shorter bike ride from my house than MIT ... : these are also words to describe the body of a woman (very different from ... is fat and jubilant: it has watched winter from a high place. Grids of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... ://dfa.mit.edu/stream/ ************************************************************************************* DONE. Hey guys, thanks a ton for helping. It was an intense push there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  voice, I settled on Colors of the Wind, from Pocahontas, since it's a song ... to read a few lines from the script, from two different characters. The ... walking in front of me) turned to see where it was coming from. A guy rode

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  of the United States, who came to us with a special message from his ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011