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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of ... MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• 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 teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  room real quick to grab my finished laundry. 11.27 pm - 12.31 am: I head ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their ... [annotation note ="froshy: /frɑʃi/. adj., sometimes but not always pejorative. To act

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dismiss quickly. 5. You have freedom to choose your classes It is so cool ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... Atlantic to begin his studies as a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  didn't need anymore. I quickly messaged and went to claim it from her ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... 's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  man, later that night. We rush too quickly from Jesus' death to Jesus ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014