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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit ... pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does the airborne pumpkin have to come to terms with its identity* before

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  building were relabeled to represent rooms in Hogwarts. (The number "9 ... in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and ... first book back in the late 1990s. During the Harry Potter era, MIT has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it ... 'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... Cormick Hall :) To begin with, here's the front - in all its December snow ... a 50% discount at all the dorm dining halls (in addition to a $300

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... . However, a closer inspection points to a significant variance present in day-to ... . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it ... last.  In fact, I’m really just amazed that we were all awake to witness ... now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in ... attention of the frazzled shopkeeper to put in their order. And it turns out ... choosing), while others will have to watch the pie run out and be stuck in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  in May, giving me something tangible to celebrate two years at the ... . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  competition, and went on to compete in Miss America. You can read all about ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted ... . As hard as it may be, try to keep all that in mind, and no matter what ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... This Sunday is the infamous East Side Party, which is open to the MIT ... . But it is all in the name of science. All events taking place over the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  just paid my sister dwarfed in comparison to what would be my tuition for ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree ... time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense ... like it was silly to limit what sorts of classes and activities I did in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... UROP in a field [annotation note="Many people use UROP as a way to ... the C in CH sneezing. The goal of this is to help children, learning

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their ... Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a ... lived in the lodge then. It had been threatening to rain all day-- darker ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  scratch off the "m" in "team" on the door to 10-085, giving Building ... . Once in 66, you can turn to view an interesting room full of old ... to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005