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

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... comparison to the other things that could have written about, so I encourage ... essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... to have to punt this 7.013 pset..."); generally bad things happen to ... light in your room replaced or when you want permission to paint your room

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  to leave it. Future me, if you're reading this, I hope that you miss ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most ... was high time they got a server. And what luck, we were just the guys to ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... the only thought in my head was “I thought we would have beautiful ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  try to rejoin. I repeat this process four times within a two-hour period ... spell but whose meaning I always have to look up because my brain stopped ... 't have any motivation to do anything right now and I'm trying to use

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  of time worrying about his career and ability to make art, and wonders ... that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... April 2005, I had my own tricky time of deciding where to go to college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  gained so many skills but didn’t have the time to figure out what I wanted ... your dreams are apparent to you, pursue them. Creating optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  about because we just don’t have time. For this tarot card, I attempted to ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... take different amounts of time to make art. Some artists finish overnight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  'm doing at the moment. I always feel like I have to tread gently to prevent ... future is this place where we have zero control over what can happen to us ... 't really help me are things like, "Don't panic. You have no reason to panic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  define their own units of measure. Everybody else has to have their unit ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... over the years and I figured it was time to share. I believe this is the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook ... reminded that it was time to eat. Various other tEp events, like our weekly ... long time to cook enough food for 30 people! The meal would begin with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , and at least now I don’t have to figure out where to store it ... entire blog about 6061, but then too much time passed and I have the memory

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

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

  

  to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop ... likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people ... ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  would finally have room to exist, and wholesome residence-based culture ... dorm was constructed in record time, and opened to students in the summer ... west and play to the east. After classes, you could head back to your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... colorful team names, but many teams have opted to write a short description ... . Both have a self-selecting nature: you choose which teams to join, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single ... ’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the ... old and cranky to have a comment on any of these things but numerology

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself ... empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  "kapow!", as some have apparently taken to start calling it) is ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016