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• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... cover a host of truly amazing feats. It was my first real introduction to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... order to make sure I would commit to the humanities in some way. > 2A ... design. I liked making app mock ups but then also presenting it to a panel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... fire to which students responded by throwing a dance party to "We Didn ... friends and I set up a website and sent an email to the student and alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... painting by number.  While the finished product could resemble a masterpiece, generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Zoom rooms worked out, and built a lot of infrastructure to make it ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , and I think it'll be a while before a Hunt makes it to a museum. Its ... burnout is to remove the physical logistics entirely. Why can't making a ... demand, it's hard to [annotation note="If someone makes a prediction market

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  passengers passes by. Then, a train originally destined to Ashmont rolls by ... before it went to Terminal A, we got to make our one and only stop which ... . We shared a lot of MBTA facts with each other, probably enough to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  posting our writing. This causes the beyblade to tip over a bit, thus making ... would make life a lot easier, but hey, we all have to learn at some point ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn ... experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list ... the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  discussion section, led by TFs (Teaching Fellows). A Departmental Writing ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... for the more ambitious (which makes for a total of 4,900+ options). You

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ". They shortly put up a Caltech vs. MIT website to "keep score", although ... suffered by walking a marathon. It's hard to quantify, but I think engagement ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021