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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... application? Is it okay if I send this as a reply to question 14?" Yes, #14 would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... Building's roof! It would be fun to go somewhere on a plane. How about ... 's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  gave a speech that made you cry. You went on a senior retreat to a camp ... , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive ... bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so ... , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  the Seniors on the team ditched his essay to give me a whole crash ... were just a formality, but RT really values transferring knowledge to new ... they’ve dealt with on RT. Not to mention, RT Design Reviews are a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... This past Thursday on my birthday my floor BMF organized that week ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  implement it in a new language -- doing that allowed us to really solidify the ... here. So we decided to create Independent Studies (which was a whole ... interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  experience new places, but it was so fun to rely on the Chinese language to ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip ... on Facebook, Gchat, or Tumblr, there’s a good chance it’s from her. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  ego and stubbornness and not because I actually wanted to. I didn't do a ... , classes where I will never talk to anyone new and classes where I could have ... helped me with classes and who I admired a lot but never had the courage to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  a new program without much money, but they would be delighted to ... , where the most exotic moths are to be found. On New Year’s Eve, we visited ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... to get a new video before we absolutely had to make the last bus. (We ... things on campus but I ended up escaping for one day to go on a day trip to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  on time without my alarm clock. So with the end to this semester, it means I'm on my way home to spend the holidays with family and friends. It'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fair to compare one or the other on par. Joining a fraternity doesn ... places a key emphasis on trying not to perpetuate this bitter feeling, and ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... . But on the contrary, everyone spoke to me the same way they spoke to ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  . Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid ... year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and ... under my bed. I spent at least a third of my nights sleeping on it instead

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  "]AMO[/annotation] class on a whim, and by then it felt too late to reroute my entire ... I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... feeling leaves almost as quickly as it arrived. Is it possible to miss

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is ... worked as a secretary and a waitress, Moore was the first in her family to ... to Moore and her husband, Matthew Moore, a patent lawyer and partner at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  'm going to go home and work on a side project, but end up watching House of ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ?) to this apparent cruise control on the school side is a burgeoning urge ... Global Initiative, which is a very new project aiming to connect MIT ... psychological defense, I went to a piercing parlor with my good friend Juhee on a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011