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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on ... 'd take a lot of time on each post. I'm not sure when the downward spiral

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... at the connotation of "creativity" from a new angle (in a sense, be ... writing about creative ideas, creative ways of looking at things, creative

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to ... just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... , would have thought had she been on my end of the line. I’m not sure why ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... formal, aka "Floormal", on the last day of classes, for which we all became ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The ... A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... is the way of things. and i feel joy, and sentimental, and nostalgia ... the thing you've been working on for so long. and that was true of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the ... important at MIT and a lot of students here struggle with it. The only way to ... move on, don't drag them back down into an unhealthy state of sorrow and

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  extra cautious of all Malaysian babies in my way. As this week the spoon ... of those dreams kind of got lost along the way, and as an MIT senior, I ... for their work on nanophotonics, and there was never any question of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last ... some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level ... very, very good way. Teaching twentysomethings not to feel so entitled to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... minutes going through all of my stuff, I spent a good hour rummaging through ... efforts focus on a style of educational encounter which emphasizes the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... can support her. If it means sitting on the sidewalk of downtown LA at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the ways that they affect people. (1:30) We always need more of this ... sorts of discussions on campus was frustrating. I feel that we all have an ... video at many points because of the way women were treated and portrayed

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... of you in meet the bloggers! Robo-CJ writes haiku On HaikuBot i am in ... 't worry so much. you have a good head on your hands and a good heart. just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  of potential awesomeness” Francis Lawrence = "the amount of sweat on ... : Samuel Maurer's Day Off Good story, right? 5 months after this entry was ... 2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017