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

  

  some of the courses here can be), and that's perfectly fine! So don ... account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . sheet metal can be cut and textured into leaves (or cacti, or, as a grad ... , laying it on an anvil) and molding the exterior with chisels. This is how ... ![/caption] The fourth one experiments with leaves (a success!) and twists on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... spent more time editing my agenda during the week and less time on ... magnitude of the bars for periods 7 and 8 may be similar, but during period 7

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  classroom from the window. I can wear mismatched socks and plop down on the ... On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  my email! And procrastinating... 7) First impressions can be mistaken ... was mean or obnoxious. But she ends up being on my floor and my initial ... -wide wifi is unbeatable and oh-I-miss-it-so. Anywhere else – Starbucks, on the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... is easy to go on autopilot and just follow where the currents lead you ... a given situation is unclear, and there will be times where the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  being and fall down. you can't cheat sleep. it will find you and make you ... multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  being the right fit for me. Fit is an experience and a quality that varies ... , schools, groups and so on. If you can find those pieces, you're probably in ... there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  the zodiac cycle.’ ....same" On being Hufflepuff: “caretakers and ... know more about the bloggers, right?!?!) and I thought it would be cool ... On being INTJ: “"the mastermind" "one of the rarest" who even cares but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while ... . Also, the pset and exam somehow cover different material. And I have a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... on it. Plus, I wanted to be able to use the empty space underneath the ... from the other two, and I made some weird mistake with the varnish on one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  the Great Dome, this past Monday night on the left and this past summer on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of ... student. In this image Boston is on the right and MIT is on the other side

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... Cambridge for the first time and set my sights on being a software engineer ... control all we can do instead is change the way we think and go about those

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  diversity than what can be captured or satisfied by a simple check box. The ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the ... around the room and use the clues written on the walls, but instead of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  't belabor the point, as my position on the matter is well established. Suffice it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... reflect this value. In short order, our decisions will be released and the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  the public interest. And in this case, when the threat of being denied from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  trifecta covered, your score would be up to some combination of fate and the ... participants were told that their performance on the test would be diagnostic of ... threat impaired both the rate and accuracy of their work, as they spent on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015