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  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  because we were both in Beauty and the Beast last year and both as Silly ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a ... with Mystery Hunt/your team last year?" The team I joined (Palindrome

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The phrase "throw another shrimp on the barbie" was invented by the Australian Tourist Commission. They actually call shrimp "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the ... lunatic. This was the most rewarding thing ever to come from my big feet

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated song for the entry title. As the most Humanities-oriented student at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  When Petey messaged the blogger alums about coming back and posting for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... . My two passions were basketball and programming. I was on the Varsity ... freshman fall.  And now? I am not on the team anymore, and I have no idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those ... ’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... one criticizes me for them. No one goes up to me and says, well, the ... post, but the pacing was weak and could benefit from a stronger cohesive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... . Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like I did here ... among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  'd like to talk about exactly the opposite - deciding to live in the COVID ... campus. I am not an international student who the Trump administration is trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  today, the taal volcano erupted. [caption id="attachment_49954 ... eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... -eloquent me would end with the blog version of a mic drop, and then peace out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... thinks they will have the best guest. The magic algorithm that matches ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  What is the typical MIT weekly schedule? The answer varies wildly among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23 ... the middle number greater than 0 (for example, 3-2-7). Other options are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... international students.   We are less than two weeks away from the Early ... some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010