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• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master ... ." But what can you do? For those interested, Sam's Mom took me to New York ... MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  yoga/stretching type exercise to get us loosened up physically, and maybe an improv activity to get us loosened up mentally. Then we get to ... have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , surrounded by soggy tourists. I don’t think I could get used to that forever ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... , and are never something I planned on. Getting funded for one would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these ... to create beacons for people to follow to find their way home and to ... overwhelming. And these types of updates seemed to have become a new normal

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Sciences lab, or somewhere else? Do I even get to be paid for this stuff? And ... ideas down on the comments! I'm always looking for new things to explore ... Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... ’m happy to report that this can also be a very exciting time for college ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my ... the house instead of disaffiliating because I wanted to explore this new ... spread myself across campus. I stepped into New House for the first time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  added benefit, now I get to experience these same traditions from the ... such goodies as how to get your MIT email address and lots of information ... , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  about which new Ferrari he's going to buy.** See, these people get money ... sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... late. And now, to hit the road for Vermont. Hope this helps with those

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... on Friday. I’m continually running experiments for my UROP to prepare

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... to get some serious work done. No YouTube, no Grooveshark, and, most

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... later. For the most part, I didn't really want to tell anyone because I ... ? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one ... leading me to miss my connection to Chicago O'Hare by approximately two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... research lab or go to graduate school solely for biology, I decided to take ... as many awesome courses as possible before I graduate. As for how to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the ... would take to arrive by T, meaning we were all about 15 minutes early. As we grabbed our hash browns and coffee we headed outside to wait for

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in ... to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  by 1 or 2, you'll be able to get plenty of sleep. 2. Anthony, who is ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... : they're not just for kindergarteners! I never used to take short naps

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for ... get to critique scientific papers right in front of the authors! Every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... for the class. The best part is I have the opportunity to take him out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017