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  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently ... 's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... vary year to year, and to be perfectly honest, 2013's admit rate could be

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and ... Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  , pickup trucks, parents, boxes, and luggage. All of these are for the people ... done and it was a wild ride. Like any wild ride it had its ups and downs ... year was awesome and I loved it. You will too. Don't worry. Feel better

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  keep working on those puzzles that Snively and Brian posted—we still don ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are ... they're doing, whether they've slept, and when they're hitting their

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... is that it's really too cold to go outside and play for any significant

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and ... . Not only does she love the riveting storylines and character development ... , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition test ... satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went ... liked this sign, and think that we should adopt the funky building thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  should check your MyMIT account to see who your interviewer is and give him ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for ... : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... . Pharmaceutical companies are facing enormous pressure to cut cost and increase ... Engineering and Biology majors, along with his Biomedical Engineering minor, to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Parents always eagerly anticipate their child's first steps and ... , squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the coordination and strength ... interest in robotics and artificial intelligence. She found out about this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my magic wand and have all my stuff moved for me, I would.) My boyfriend, Adam '07, and I moved to D-Entry of MacGregor today. We had been living

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... , and therefore don't feel compelled to comment). I certainly use some ... country says "pop"). Myself and the other Southerner in the group said "coke

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... least N+1 assailants (usually large, armed men) and defeat them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to ... at the Institute. The pomp and circumstance of an MIT graduation was a

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and ... for our twice-daily information sessions and tours should start getting ... 'll move the information sessions out of the admissions reception area and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... driving back to my hotel, listening to the game on the radio, and they kept talking about Mike Mussina (the Yankee pitcher) and his perfect game through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or ... don't translate well into hot glass – long faces, spindly limbs, and fluffy manes/tails. But because I am so cool and talented, I can easily

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  the dungeon and fight the final boss in his airship. Then, the credits would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can ... ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  around since then, and despite many non-swimmers’ grievances, the test will ... exclusively facedown and the last one optionally faceup. You also get a t-shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023