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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... route -- can you find the buildings?) Ready? Let's go! In that door ... ) with helpful sustenance in the form of frozen novelties. Yes, folks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... will count.... And speaking of AP scores...those are also posted in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston ... . In fact, it was not until Sesame Street began broadcasting 30 years ago ... ! Being There (Kosinski), The Robber Bride (Atwood), Man Child in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt ... outfit later this week - myself and my partner in cri...er...UA President

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  at Loews in Boston Common. All summer, they are having free ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... in mind, there are adventurous ice cream flavors that I feel do work

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have ... information in the Part 1 -- name, town, school, etc. There are no numbers that ... is a perfectly reasonable questions. You should be in touch with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  at several schools in January and February. The process was [annotation ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to ... . Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... hive in an unusual location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9m6MoS43k4

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... double major in[annotation note="Biological Engineering"]Course 20 ... planned to double in Course 20 and[annotation note="Science, Technology, and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  lots of emotions for day 1 of my freshman year. Thoughts ran like mad in ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... spaces that can support such a large audience. Typically, we plan months in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 661. Though they are all different in their own ... want to make the most informed decision we can in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... the role writing plays in my own life: Yes, that you travel inside of. I ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023