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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no ... mean to say is that it's probably possible to do every p-set here at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in ... ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  took me all day. It wasn't that I didn't want to do it. Organic ... . Lament over not having any time to do problem set. 7:35 PM: Teaching ... teaching approaches and what not to do while attempting to inhale dinner and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... need to make sure that the people they admit are able to do the work ... 's not what activities you do (or how many activities you do), but what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you ... ’ve already made. If not, pick one, do it faster than me, and don’t look back

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do ... recently and ask how they are doing. It is cold outside, but the people are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  building something awesome. Some people do it through UROPs. Some people do it through clubs. Some people do it through hackathons. Hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Who’s Been Doing This All Semester, yours truly! Movies! These are ... is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same ... have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  miss their target, because they do not recognize where disappointment ... particular concern (although perhaps some of you do believe that attending MIT ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... conditioning shock me. “We do it because we want you to be happy,” my

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

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... Adam's CEO finished undergrad here in 1979, then continued on to do his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• 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 ... . In Fading together, we ask the question: what do we, as puzzle authors, do about the fact that our work are ephemeral? We look to how theater

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... you're going to do, like have someone still in Boston mail it to you, but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... interviewed several Africans that were doing amazing projects on the continent ... about simply capturing what all my amazing classmates were doing in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  this as my reality, letting my work define who I was. I stopped doing the ... so boring? I felt stripped of all the personality I had from doing the ... you to make time to do the things you want to do. My work often has me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016