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• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... past applicants who posted their success stories on College Confidential ... . And while this particular story has a happy ending, that's not the point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... . Early Hunt stories were an excuse plot, a story serving the needs of the ... story text. The complexity of the Hunt also increased: as a crude measure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  opened my eyes to the untold story of limited-English proficiency patients ... English letters. Over the summer, these stories became too common ... person reading your essay will be bored too. Make it vivid - let your story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  color in order to estimate salinity and sea surface temperature, Beaver

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... a serial, because I finished this story in about an hour, and honestly ... . Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel that tells a story of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... said. “You never know what’s gonna happen.” He told me his story, or ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... cloudy sky while I was stressing out. Here's the same story, but told from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  (true story: used to run 13 minute miles in elementary school; see above ... them telling stories about her. Inevitably, a lot of stories came out about her and me, and how much we loved each other. My favorite story

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  page story, and other times they're as specific as "Write a four-line conversation in which the characters in Meder's story have a conversation with ... student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... courage. In sharing your stories, you’ve taken a risk; you’ve opened your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... relatively distant future: our story instead concerns Monday, June 1, 1925

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  fishing for an interesting bit of information that might make a good story ... journalist wrote a compelling story, which got picked up by a number of other

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , when I tell them this story, become depressed. After all, if the kid who ... have? But they have it backwards. In fact, this story should be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  ? Did you spell your name right? (true story: I almost submitted my Common ... apps is this: your college application should read like a story, with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want ... leader, of— Focus. This time, let's tell a smaller story. It is the end ... memories to be made, new stories to be told, and new friends with whom to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get ... .038 21G.038: China in the News: The Untold Stories was also slightly ... “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  surrender? I'm not sharing this song or this story with you tonight only ... old story What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not ... permanent We're temporary, temporary Same old story What if I say I'm not

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  ’s commitment to diversity, but they cannot tell the stories of the international ... diversity efforts and policies, I wanted to tell stories. I wanted to show the ... these students’ stories and, through their experiences, affirm MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017