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  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before promptly going back to sleep. I had never met Regina Spektor, been on a road trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  read it to make it a good essay. At times, you risk losing your original ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  driving around a quiet neighborhood, taking random twists and turns to make ... . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... , there’s a perfectly flat surface from the hatchback to the front seat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  've never had to make a decision this hard before. This is blatantly false ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... to understand that it takes physical presence to build a home away from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... downstream. But I had a map in hand, and I was determined to reach the X I had ... myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... that make dirt dirty (bacteria, bugs, decaying debris) are in a thin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  are hard, and Prof. Cohen uses a variety of methods to try to make ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my ... this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... than I could grow, at a price lower than I would have to pay to grow it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  — making a difference. I’m starting to doubt that it’s possible. You would ... future. I am still determined to make a difference. I am bright and angry ... 's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you? Charles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020