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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Literature Favorite things about MIT: I love that the people take their studies ... seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... : Calvin and Hobbes Advice about applying to college/MIT: There's no one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  really miss sailing. Sailing, in my opinion, is the best PE Class you can take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of ... -- setting up events, matching prefrosh (that's MIT jargon for you, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the ... musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... transported back to my days as an MIT freshmen: the excitement I felt learning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  : pika is an independent, cooperative living group at MIT headquartered in ... Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  hosting prefrosh. I’ve also hosted for WISE twice, which is MIT’s fly ... don’t think this has every happened during my time at MIT? It is ... , but another part is happy I didn’t miss out on parts of MIT either

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been ... start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is ... . Partial Production, Partial Passion There is a literal folder in my google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Allan K.' 17 once put it, "Stanford is never far from MIT"). Grab some ... great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned ... of other MIT people) increasingly live on different ends of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  I am excited. I am excited because my math professor is sentences away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  As I've discussed on this blog before, MIT MedLinks are awesome. Got ... to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don ... last night's session with a psychologist and a social worker from MIT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  upon a time at MIT, Sarah Tabacco was a black-clad, curly ... accessible fashion while emphasizing three major points: 1. Cyclobutene is NOT FLAT. 2. Stereochemistry is the most important thing in the world because

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  of junior year, I got into MIT. “Got into” is here used idiomatically ... been sleeping. The truth is that MIT isn't right for everyone. Some ... MIT, I became exceedingly convinced that graduating high school was just

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  gone, I've... -Helped run MIT's first Model United Nations (MUN ... . This is my third semester directing the program! o___o -Graded 450 SAT ... went completely in the other direction and is taking on an Anthropology

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in ... I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... are, because first semester freshman year is a ball. My awesome pre

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  at MIT. The way it works is, there are a few dorms with dining halls. I ... to provide her own answer). Sara Campbell asked "It's cool that MIT ... 'd be lost with all those options! Does MIT compensate and have other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... ="just so we're being clear, MIT Mystery Hunt"]This School's Big Game[/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  i. before MIT The truth is, my scientific "career" started a while ... ) I really love doing scientific research, 2) life is long, and getting ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  you want to stay away. It's, like, aloof. Unknown. MIT is the same. The ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012