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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... two essays to write a long essay on, but I guess now they're requiring ... stand on the sidelines - I want to make a difference. To this end, I

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  given a spot on the team. In December, I moved to Cambridge, and I started ... 't set a goal to graduate from MIT on time, I would have never made it ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• 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 ... the upcoming new year, a time when I'm even more reflective than usual ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. 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

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  chapters and take on new responsibilities. A distinguished professor in my ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of ... yet to re-experience that level of wretchedness since coming here as a ... this past Saturday, on the evening of the Old New Year’s Day. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... "]reason."[/annotation] Aristotle goes on to argue that that virtue is itself a [annotation note ... happy. This seems pretty close to a complete end. On the other hand, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... do great things, because if you had the guts to apply to a place like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  , on a random day during senior week, Shuli and I wandered down to Quincy ... twice in one week, and, on my second viewing, I happened to spot a person ... differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in ... 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

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  decide to form a Canadian coalition and insist on either both performing or ... : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you ... coming out. They flutter to the floor in a heap. The Milk arrives on ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , 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 ... look forward to reading about your passions, too. Finally, with a month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... join a local weaving circle back home in California, to learn a new skill ... .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012