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  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... to you? Does the work in your portfolio help us better understand ... portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... college. We all showed up ready to have our minds blown by Joshua Bell ... him?) decided to show off two of his talents at the same time by playing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  question: "a year from now, how intact do you want your emotions to be ... no one to mention it to. Only then does it get lonely. "n ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  listening to a nurse say "puff our your chest like a girl puffs out her boobs ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... lazy one. Got dressed, and was treated to pancakes by my friend Sophie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... mom used to say that I’m directionless; not in life, but by foot. I ... place you’re trying to walk to. So as a kid without a GPS in her pocket, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  virtue, however, is a contradiction: you're selfishly claiming to be ... passions. I don't feel the need to lie to myself by claiming this was out of ... , that by attending a more prestigious school I might be able to help more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  motivation among friends to get stuff done (in startup speak: GSD.) Halfway ... skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... $370,000 for our new shirts, even getting some cool press. I did end up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  get to know other members of your class - so if that means missing a ... /conversations. 5. GET FREE STUFF - Consider this your ultimate goal at CPW =P Get to ... 't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  semester at MIT, something I didn't get to do last summer. I went to bed ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  next to the window with the sun coming in, idolizing my new computer. I ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... and is now well on his way to fame and fortune. And by fame and fortune ... it And get your H on Go ahead, be gone with it Get your H on Go ahead

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  understand, but you can try your best to decipher it [SPOILERS AHEAD] here ... ruined everything, it shipped to my MIT address and I couldn't get it. So I ... get a poster but a friend happened to win this poster and didn't really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by ... note="Holiday by Green Day"]--[/annotation] As soon as I got to college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  % worth the effort to try to get to know your roommate(s). But my freshman ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... those hang outs, I could feel the loneliness getting to me. A lot. The

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  interesting bunch by going to your favorite AIM client and joining the chatroom ... By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  cards, but it's rarely useful for you to discard all the cards in your hand. even if you're trying to win by drawing all the cards in your ... you're probably doing fine then? cj: not as if you'd know how to make it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... what books are in your beach bag? I’d love to know. Happy Summer!

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  early…). I started my morning by grabbing a bite to eat at Burton ... picked up some more free stuff, and listened to a few lectures by EECS ... Bloggers was: We started out by making root beer floats and listening to a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008