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• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  your own story down to vague concepts isn't going to do you any good. For ... high school field hockey team. I thought I had a great, original story to ... convinced that I had this edgy, original story to tell, and he went and shot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  based. Most of the activities in class are structured around stories or ... , the bulk of the time is spent discussing our opinions on the story as a ... class time as an exercise in functional communication. Story and movie

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  . Immediately you go, “Oh, Romeo and Juliet, everyone knows that story!” But there ... have that make it ideal for telling this story this way? We wanted to get ... facilitate the storytelling and the connection between fans and these stories

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  got back from China. Purple Hibiscus was such a well-woven story that I ... sexism and classism in Asia, and seemed to say, yes, this story is bizarre ... , because it’s a story about a half-English, half-Nigerian child, and reflects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  they need to write a poignant story about a lifelong passion for their ... afterwards. No one’s life story is that neat. My essays were restrained. My ... than one way to tell a story. There is more than one story you can choose

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  is out of place. You may have heard of his infamous Guts short story ... the center of the story. The copies of the English translation of ... could match that. Way to go, Abe! Bonus: Short Story Dispenser Yesterday

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  hesitation). However, it turned out that Cam's story had more to do with MIT ... is my story. Not the story of my life, but part of the story of the ... will be too. I hope that my story can be helpful to you. This is what MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  second. And while my words are but a drop in the sea of endless advice for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Earth's atmosphere and outer space (100 km above sea level). We are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  mention, we only use freshly cracked black pepper and sea salt in my house

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  getting lost in a sea of brilliant minds. Innovation was happening quietly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  , standing in a sea of my fellow half-marathon finishers, people young and old

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  like me to risk the strong seas churned up by Hurricane Norbert just off

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  will be able to buy expensive fruit and go to Sea World whenever you want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  frequently referencing that story as I think about the challenges we have ... of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  first dates. It’s a story that diverges wildly from the backstories of ... story that involves helicopter parents, prep classes starting in second

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

   Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  asleep and the story continued. Eventually, I’d be wrenched out of the ... ’ve written short stories and [annotation note="during an abortive Na ... produce these beautiful stories that make people feel something or teach

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  (History of Ancient Greece), and 21W.755 (Reading and Writing Short Stories ... story that he failed at figuring out the bomb on purpose.] Anywho, we ... excavation and study took place in the 19th century. Writing Short Stories

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  message. I want to share my story with you and thank you for all the amazing ... page. And I hope his story, as he told it, is both a solace and an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020