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• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, San ... transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... have checked in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  divulging trade secrets. Also, I can't really read most of the error messages ... architecture is just sitting there, smack dab in the middle of the city, right ... BEAUTIFUL. I almost felt like an Asian tourist standing in front of the great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  hadn’t been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half ... comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his ... period of time where we can just exist as people.” And I think, wait, what

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... I say I really have no idea. In another example of Secret Santa

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  my friends, explored more of the city, and spent two days in the alps ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... letterpress. This was the first time I'd tried anything of this sort, and I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  thought, “I am literally learning this content off of notes I wrote in ... .[/annotation] I got invested in the personal lives of different scientists, as a lot of discoveries were made in 1930s Germany, and I wanted to keep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  in front of us. I snatched one! Yum. dinner: I went to a Sloan event ... lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no ... what I eat. This is partly out of curiosity toward my own collegiate

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... -shirt I'm wearing is from CityDays, the Orientation event sponsored by MIT ... standing in line in front of Laila! (It's always half fun, half awkward when

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... each one was, I can only offer you this news, which has me excited beyond ... , check back in a few for some more a more impressive sketching of my life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... music: I love nearly all kinds of music, but if asked to name a few, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  mastery of the content and the logic of their solution live, in front of a group of knowledgeable experts. You can see the recorded final presentation (which took place on December 4) here. I think one of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  City, California. The day of taping, I congregated in the first floor ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... : About me: I am a senior who is majoring in 21E: Humanities and Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  huge fan of 3D modeling in general, but I sure do miss traditional modeling in Rhino whenever I have to work on my assignment. I spend most of ... generally hanging out with friends. I can’t say I don’t miss the thrill of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... Panama. I remember pretty much none of it (including take-off) except for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  putting in roughly 40 hours of work a week for the past two weeks. And I ... . So far, I've spent most of my time working with cell culture in a ... various materials in order to make solutions of the proper concentration. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  ? A prototype of who I will be? Somewhere in the middle? Right now ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  : I've tried it all, and I've been bad at all of them. In eighth grade ... requirements yet because I'm waiting until we're fully in person, but one of the ... because of the people, but I'm not submerged in all the baggage that comes

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• 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 ... absurd amount of people using it (as Vincent H. '23 can attest to), I’m on ... [/caption] CATEGORY THREE: SHENANIGANS Part of why I was inspired to write this in the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022