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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... : “Show the admissions committee who you are!”, “Be passionate!”, “Don ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  So if I take them now, I would really struggle to wake for the sunrise Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit ... misti. turns out, miguel is thinking of misti also for the summer

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in ... two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of ... (but make the lines infinitely long). Assuming these lines are not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  , considering how most of the bloggers listen to more music than ~95% of their respective countries. here are the previous editions, if you're interested ... . the top two for top artist minutes listened are on the lower end here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to ... - here are, respectively, my firehose from the semester and my current IAP ... complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... breakfast sandwich and run across campus to the Koch Institute. I stepped

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies ... ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... magazine listing all the companies that are coming. This is my homework for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from ... was today" and wishing me a happy birthday. In the e-mail, he also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking the MCAT). I thought I'd share my thoughts on this matter - since some ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I ... the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that ... ) The most reliable recruiting tactic one can use when holding an event is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... this summer through the MIT-Washington Summer Internship Program! I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It's the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is ... 've reached the limits of your productivity. Conclusion: (4) is your only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  fun. You got the same grade only he had more fun."   I read ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... just...gone. And I don't know where it went. And it terrifies me. The ... read these blogs rather than just me throwing ideas into the void. And

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  interesting and highly-rated classes while still hitting all the requirements ... information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and even the average number of hours for each class (based on course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... “Aether” from now on because saying “one of the twins” or “traveler” (as he’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... quite the same. it's experienced in shorter, more intense bursts, and is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023