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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  time you are amazed to see that you have a written a story, an essay, or ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math ... poetry. Think you don’t have a single idea, nothing to say? Just start

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  that you could go to a less challenging school and have an easier time ... have to be creative. There are a lot of ways to show your creativity in ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  meant that teachers would have time to do more drawn out projects, or ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... wrong, and I had to be OK with that. So, I kept it simple. I would have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  different things. You have time! and access to internships, different ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  heartbroken to leave it, but there are times in your life when you realize you're ... to actively put yourself out of your comfort zone as often as possible ... start a dance party anywhere, any time. I fell in love and drove to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... well-written essay takes time to distill in the back of your mind, and ... process things in your mind all the time without meaning to do them. For

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  them during your time here. Learn how to work Stellar; have a heart ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have ... said to have graduated magna cum laude from MIT. In an MIT Viewbook ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : you just have that look ME: excuse me FROSH: you're probably just here ... your den FROSH: to cry about your future ME: ME: ME: ME: so hey do ... * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... you. It's a tricky matter that I have down to a concise science after a ... -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  your PE classes (conveniently, four are required to graduate). I have ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... "MIT things" change from year to year :p) I have not seen this list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... . My job has been an interesting experience to say the least. I have many ... consistently to finish things to the best of my ability while making time for the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  casual relationships still want to have conversations or go on dates, but ... attention to what their friends (or your friends) say, as often it can be ... for your friends. You should listen to your close friends' concerns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  tree. Pockets have no capacity to sense, so they must find an anchor spot ... Emergency! A volcano has erupted relatively close to your critter's habitat ... .   Day 5: Sliding Pocket Pockets, now Sliding Pockets, have begun to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , your time was best spent going for those goals directly. i used to admire ... , looking up would waste time; that was the lesson he wanted us to learn. "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  cooking, if you just take the time to make your model right. I find recipes ... have time, chill this mixture for half hour. If not, just go straight to ... . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in ... 't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024