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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I ... +/Hulu/Netflix if you're trying to take a study break kitchen with snacks free tea ... adjacent to this area, so it might get loud between 7 and 11 pm Building 36

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack ... , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... 's focused on you and your stories. Use these opportunities to tell a story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get 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’re

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... you’re curious to know something, MIT will give you the tools to figure

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... will be able to handle this much force on it. Go back to your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... to your classes, you're preventing yourself from doing so as well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... or academic issues forced your hand, well, that’s hard enough to admit ... hear is slightly different. They don’t have to worry about getting sick

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... your enjoyment, here are more pictures of my little ray of sunshine to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn ... . Try as I might to pretend otherwise, I get really unhappy and overemotional ... experience so shaken that I now go to bed between midnight and 1 and get up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  victories and your shortcomings, to an admissions committee. The person who ... MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021