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  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  you sail against the direction of the wind?" joseph, claire and i sat and traded glances. silence stretched among us as i thought about the question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  many [annotation note="not me though, I am not sage"]sage upperclassmen ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... (GIRs) are one exception to this. personally, I think there is still

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I ... “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I did not know about fuses. I still don’t. You might notice that the

  • 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 ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do

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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 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…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo. Since then, the application has been revised, and although I still believe

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My ... , so I missed a good deal before and after winter break. I wrote and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... as a computer science major.  I'll add another disclaimer here to say

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college applications, including your MIT applications. Over the summer, when I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , optimistically, and devastatingly. Yuliya blogged about it. I scrawled words on the flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... , I approached a friend. Ruben P. ’18 had stood up before the panel, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014