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  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  didn’t help me at all when I was actually writing my essays. If you are ... . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... business at home to raise money for college. Choosing a laptop for college ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  robust.",Sophomore spring - I UROPed at the MIT Media Lab working on the ... , I would start again at lesson 1.\n") print("When I started focusing on ... you don't get it right on your first try. I suggest you look at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  Ben's room "more soulless than any dorm room I've seen at MIT." I haven ... , and most importantly, get all the babes - or, at least, a large ... 't build a loft, or at least the room wouldn't be as open." It's fairly rare

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all ... hacks? I've heard about the MIT balloon popping up at half-time during the ... mainstream culture. If you've heard of hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  !) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron ... .01, but also better at it than I am, I made my way up to Conner 4 again to ... there, and I'm sure they've been mentioned on the blogs at some point

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  for the second short essay: can you tell me (at least three days before ... high school). Will the admissions office look at things like that? As for ... month but the rep canceled. I know at least 3 people who are intested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  story: my first term at MIT, I had passed out of single variable calculus ... residents can only apply for early action at MIT but not International ... complete, with 4-6 years being the norm, at least among my friends. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  next attempt at embroidery, and it was a... process. My initial idea was ... at the tip, making it wider than the tip of the brush. I also struggled ... all the struggles, at least it brought someone joy and I guess that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in ... on the streets. I could hear the cheering at Beaver Stadium from our ... at-risk youth. He was later found guilty on 45 of 48 charges. The media

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  applications. I've seen a couple of these cases so far this year. "I look at last ... at their conclusions / decisions last year. Then I read your new app ... decided earlier this year to take Organic Chemistry I at a local college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three ... is that, at larger firms, these systems have basically already been ... for a semester or a summer at a time. so how do i choose something that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  of things to make you feel better. cj: snark later! at least introduce ... at the time was by pouring myself into planning. planning about how ... ? you call lying awake at night wondering about finances planning? to me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  MIT, at least with your scores and exhaustion of the math curriculum. However, you should try to take some kind of physics if you can, if not at your high school maybe at a local college. Also, you may want to talk a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my ... works -- and that this represents my cabinet at its fullest point, since I ... the big cheap Goya bags at[annotation note="The new uber

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  assigned to one of five screening groups at the beginning of the semester and ... chapel from afar.  At this point, I had maybe two weeks until the video ... looking at all the features of Premiere Pro used to scare me, but starting

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  .” I feel eyes on me at all times, especially when I'm alone. I am a ... wrestle some power away by, at the very least, assuming the role of an ... drippingly saccharine at all times. Offer to help cook, or clean. Carry the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  home and cookware section now!!) at one point, i was walking to sevlev late at night because she'd asked me for some gatorade. we were on the ... came over and looked at me inquisitively. i offered a weak smile. "i was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the ... middle, to three of their friends flanking them. i glance again at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022