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  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie’s ... rediscover home. It’s a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and a record of how

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in people’s minds so they come away carrying something valuable. I began blog ... that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... lab under the cognitive science department, even though the project’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Dog 2 even though they used to live together) eats Dog 1's food, Dog 2 ... Dog 4 will eat Cat 1's food only if Cat 1 is standing by the food ... toolbar of my laptop screen. No internet connection. I leave the call and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  -day Dynasty family line. True to my wishes, it’s so big now that we’ve never ... community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... exchange of ideas and excitement about Ethiopian-Eritrean culture on MIT’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  world domination in integration bees. The successful MIT application

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  information requested. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1CDgNTB5tc ... display screen listed all of the options, where it would then highlight the ... -level detector which turns the LCD screen turns ON and OFF with two loud claps

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and ... are we quoting Wikipedia’s article on Vlad the Impaler? An architect

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... face with innumerable paintings along the man’s arms.  Drawings of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  LSC movie screening - again, one of those things that you do over and ... ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  initial Microsoft screening and go straight into the behavioral and ... , no glimmer or sheen of opportunity; just words on a screen. I couldn ... .279, and hopefully getting in touch with more 15-1's to talk to them about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  problems with anxiety, relationships, stress management, depression screening ... (S^3) - For help with managing classes and getting extensions or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses ... classes but only 8 2020s responded to my survey and all with different ... approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... dog didn't know what was going on but she was down to party anyway. S ... few more minutes. \o/ S.M. '19 It was Pi Day. I was sitting on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden ... . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  august, see Nisha’s post']on July 6th,[/annotation]and it ends up being ... to fend for ourselves, lead valiantly by the[annotation note="MIT’s ... and so much harder to spend quite as much time staring at a screen. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . Shaping the new BC — Current 2023s are supposed to be able to move back into ... concerned about whether the delay in renewal would impact the class of 2023's ... 2023s can't ever move back in, our culture dies. Culture takes decades to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , a department under MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social ... Puzzle Hunt CMU has its roots in the mid-2000s, before becoming its own ... it now. Comic book history This IAP I took a class called CMS.S60

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023