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  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every question that is asked. Below, and in my other Questions Omnibus posts, I try ... (which has been my excuse for the past two days). Anyway, as an EC, here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  information design to 2D and 3D art practices and more. In my opinion, this ... direction. In my experience, every undergrad I’ve met in the design program ... direction that most interests you. In my opinion, this is both beneficial in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school ... /where did you learn about MIT? Natalie: My brother was considering MIT when ... summer before my freshman year of high school, 2014. Christian: In fifth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  .In my hometown, the houses were so far apart you could yell “trick or ... down a gravel road. So every Halloween, my “route” consisted of exactly one stop: my grandma’s house, a quarter mile away.We’d shuffle down the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand ... should take my own notes, write on the slides, or write on the notes ... and drop different parts of my notes on my IPad so I have space to edit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  's not a slow, methodological process   against my will ... only when the inspiration threshold hits and my sweet little creativity ... critic (I sometimes describe my cuisine experience to whoever is out for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... [annotation note="my floor/living community"]B2[/annotation]’s notably tropical ... find some of my friends upstairs, changed into more cold

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... . [annotation note="And try their highest level of spice."][/annotation] To my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... call my virtual critters in the OTHER Nintendo-affiliated Niantic game

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] credit: Aleks Siemenn (my research grad student)[/caption] research group chat All evening, my [annotation note='with the Accelerated Materials Laboratory for Sustainability, headed by my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... pandemic--” “Yeah, but Mom said you were going.” Apparently my whole family

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... weight between my boxes evenly. i realized that the heaviest thing i had to ... . it's nice being back in this room. it's warmer than my room in simmons

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... recipes often start off with [annotation note="“my grandma first made me ... ’×4’ whiteboard that is in my room! https://youtu.be/YxWMdDl7IQo Materials required

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... middle of packing my life up, ready to ship myself back to New York, but I still feel pretty connected to Cambridge. This has been my home for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it ... How I got all 5s on my AP exams without even trying What question ... spending Halloween? sitting in front of my laptop panicking over which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... 't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i ... routines is also hard my body really has aged and no longer can function on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete ... disintegrates into Juans upon Juans. I was then shown my quarters for the next ... , white walls, a desk only a little smaller than my own, a bed, a rather

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  -August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project ... . For my German course, we had our final exam last week. As an exchange student, I was able to request to take my 2 session exams as distance

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston ... :D silly ski lift pic (pc: matt f. '20) On President's Day, my parents ... sausage, and my mom got the yellow eel. This weekend, I felt like

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  at 1 where I worked until 5:15 and went back to my dorm but on the way ... cake and I finished it at like 9:50 and messaged out to my entry to come eat it and then my dad called to talk about a car dealership that opened

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018