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  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  the first of two days at the convention and were met with lots of lively ... they offer, and I probably spent 80% of that entire day talking to ... battery was drained, I grabbed lunch with a friend at one of the many food

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of ... enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need ... required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... switched at birth.) Tomorrow, Mom is going to come to 5.60 (chemical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at ... of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  . We met at a local café within walking distance of campus and my home in ... . After a long day of talking to prospective students at Paige Memorial High ... strange position: we stand at the threshold of young people’s futures. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the ... boarding at a lot of my flights. I message Ruth about it whenever it happens ... way at the end of B and you have to get all the way to the end of A

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  the brink of the end of my time here at the Gymnasium, and there are a ... creeping over the steeple of the church as I arrive at school. 4. I will ... since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  looked at the picture again. Not featured: a rare sighting of me at ... stadium was rather fun 9/19/21 At the beginning of the semester, my friend ... "You can only start at top or half of the hour," religiously, and I'm not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  year, at the start of my admissions blogging in the spring and throughout ... of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... see another theme of the semester taking shape, or at least an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  friend says that at the beginning of a program, he looks at the awards they ... that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Island is a British dating show where a group of people live at a villa for ... support in the form of Boones, upgrades you earn at the end of defeating a ... 'm horrendous at the game, but I've been trying to watch a lot of streamers play

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out that most of the team members had a better chance of "owning" an NFL team
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... Wednesday, the 17th. Day 0 - 6/13: I woke up at 5:00, threw on some clothes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020