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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  allowed me to explore the limits of what I can do, in ways that I never ... because I'm ultimately not sure how many of these attributes of humans can ... , probably something I'm overly sensitive to, having spent a number of years in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the ... Cross and maybe even all of Roanoke. So smart in fact, that he got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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  morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have ... about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... ="very exciting in the age of Zoom"]taught really well![/annotation] I also like ... as a continuation of my work in 16.831, and now I’m planning to go to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  friends, in an unfamiliar city instead of Boston or DC, but still with that ... Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  together is that I really, really want to be in all of them. I feel like this ... first day of school, smack in the middle of my 7-10 class, I got rejected ... sort of aimlessly hang out in lounges messing around. Last semester, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... -year students, amounting to ~20 hrs/wk of teaching. In Germany I taught special ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or ... 113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... 't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to ... 45 minutes in length and are conducted by admissions officers (I do one ... that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... should I attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them ... to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... 's the coolest way to get around.)But I'm getting ahead of myself. On to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group ... of the admissions staff that can be credited with the successful

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  , I went out to dinner with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF ... Thursday morning, I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects ... . Some of the underclassmen projects I visited: Iddoshe and Yi, Peter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  going and be the best runner I can be. It took a lot of experiences to ... ="it's like the difference between just living in a town, and being a citizen of ... had no idea what it actually entailed. I just got in the uber and ended

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to ... largest sheet of wood I could find at [annotation note="a shelf/wall area in ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  skyline, the trip feels routine, normal. I can walk out in my slippers and ... couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then ... in. After my nap, I will head over to the west parallel of East Campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016