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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in ... remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... , MITES, ...) There's a whole thread dedicated to sharing research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and ... students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  hallway while eating pizza. Maybe go over to a machine shop to make a crazy ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston. That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... , invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  else might need to make sense of the essay. Like, you might know that ... baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a ... yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... be interested! Before I came to MIT, I was often asked by my parents ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015