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  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  -price college night, and we took their website's claim of "All you have to do is ... . Give it a little time to digest, because you've got to make room for ... the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  that appears to have whizzed by. 2013 is also alliterative, composite ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... to make sure she takes advantage of her new school's resources. ''I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision ... .C. tried to encourage us to yell “American Cancer Society” by saying: “The ... So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... flight that had been delayed by two hours. So, I got out my laptop and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  year for freshman hall rush, I decided to beautify my room by letting the ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate ... to the choir, but you never know whose lives you all can change by

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... during CPW.) We try to give you everything you need to make an informed ... links to some dorm tours put up by myself and the other bloggers: Baker

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  : Complete by 2000 The mission was scheduled to begin at 1800, with a tight turnaround to meet the timeline. We quickly encountered delays, however, and by ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  just felt drawn to the dorm. The next few rankings were taken up by dorms ... living in. And I’ve even started to make my mark on the walls. I would ... to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... because we want to give them as much time to develop as possible and make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  video creators sharing various approaches to being more productive, having ... , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to procrastinate. Which isn’t to say that the videos aren’t effective or useful

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members ... . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... engineers are jumping on board heavily-funded projects to make video games

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10 ... Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... ’s time to put my phone away. 12:08: Walk out of 10-250 feeling WRECKED by

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  particular because I was incredibly homesick. It’s not that I struggled to make ... new group. To make a long story short (one for a whole other blog post ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  Lima students, to a website that promotes local artisans and their ... MISTI makes it possible for a broke college student to do that! With that ... ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017