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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... we have kids, although I'd like a boy. I'll do a lot of cooking to save ... will cook only main dishes. This is what I plan to do when I grow up. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... there are any questions. Do you know if the AdComm has ever actually ... who are doing the application reading. What about the rest? Who else is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... of this to encourage anyone to let go of everything. I'm doing more

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  doing day-to-day work, since I felt like I was missing a central ‘why’. It ... what they do, technically capable, but don’t have dreams of their own ... possibly do enough with so little space. My life is too short to change the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... write comments about how students were doing and what they were learning

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  competent course staff. Would recommend. You basically do low-level hacking ... able to compute and do the math than the physical ideas, so I decided to ... really complicated! Once you've formalized these notions, how do you prove

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  walk all the way back to MIT… which I indeed ended up doing because the ... . Listening to music was one of the few things I could do to distract myself ... those policies do not allow excused absences because [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  doing nothing at all. I couldn’t stop smiling. So then, of course, I had ... own “wow, I really do go here now” excitement. But I expected all those ... ! Really though, I do want to talk about this, because it’s something I truly

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  —I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn ...  nervous, but I want to[annotation note="for right now; this changes almost daily"]do ... realistically do in one year: learn color theory, become financially literate

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation ... their friends and family. It’s kind of hilarious, but hey—you gotta do what you gotta do…"]a state completely deprived of Trader Joe

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... at least, may actually do more harm than good. In the intervening

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been ... enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up dropping a class. Not cause I was doing terribly bad, but because I hated it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and ... things I’ll be doing.  [caption id="attachment_79603" align

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this by hiring students who have ... like something you might like to do, then head on over to Slideroom and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  't really know what they were doing. They'd often make fun of me for being on the weaker side, how at the age of 7 I couldn't do a proper pushup or ... do it. How I couldn't climb into the back of my grandpa's pickup truck

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  people something meaningful? Not-infrequently I get asked “what should I do ... trying to figure out the big-picture questions of what major/career do I want, or what do I want out of life, sometimes you aren’t ready to answer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  i could be, with or without you. everything i used to do felt like a ... if you think like this. do you think of me like this? do you feel like ... jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  end of the group...bloggers really do be LISTENING artists listened to ... ....how???   Wrapped Summaries     what do we have to say for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  are we going to live?" or "What should we do after college?" I can ... ? How can I prove that I am good enough? I still do not know to this day ... the word. But I do know that it shaped the way I carried myself from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021