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• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  quality, list what your application will already have. Any gaps will need to ... you’re aiming for. Use a thesaurus if you have to. Avoid any cliché ... still have time, leave your essays alone again, for longer this time. Then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  ”, Grab your bags and try not to look back.   Distance is to have ... now you are the invisible daughter for your mom.   Distance is to gradually lose your accent, And those words that you used to love. Replacing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  how many times your mom yells at you to pick up your clothes, you ... to college, and maybe all the time you've saved from tying your shoes ... to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  -backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me ... to cushion your grade, while a typical a freshman class will have 3 ... life was to properly fill out your name and your AP Java teacher's name

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  and did not match, we already have your QuestBridge application and will ... proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early ... .) You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Regular Action
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that ... : something I discovered during CPW - a great time to check out something ... semesters, I've reorganized my schedule up to three times (make that four

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  opening up your problems to a friend, say. sometimes that difference is ... this past week? how is your next week going to be? are you being ... any more intense? do you feel like you’re getting closer to act upon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... which our applicants are coming from; we want to know the context of your ... extracurricular activities and is working a part-time job to support their family, I

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  aiming to get tonight? Do you have enough food to survive?  With whom will ... a reminder to ask bigger questions--Am I making the most of my time here? What kinds of things do I want to leave this place doing and having

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... application component at this time. There are still more weeks of reading to be ... up with your Educational Counselor. If we have not processed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  decision to take a break. We took the time to decompress from the rush of MIT ... ="Our parents, not having grown up in the US nor gone to college, don’t fully ... have a lot of free time on top of TSL (we were putting in about 5

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... more beautiful than parking lot trees have the right to be. From ... , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  want freely, able to hang out when we want. i have a bike and am not a ... recently. time to write, i guess.   ... it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  .” *begins to sign my book* “But I do have to ask: if you were a unit of ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your ... good to have a nonschool-related thing that is your home and source of ... is one of the very few times where you'll actually have enough time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... parent-readers out there, I'd also like to thank you for helping your ... disappointment. But your job at that moment is to manage your own reaction so you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I, and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some ... ). These comics don't have any special meaning to me, but head on over and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  face to the interwebs. I have replaced it with that of the guitarist ... too tired to work, but have to work, take a 15-30 minute, 90-120 minute ... /or insomnia: take a walk outside on a sunny morning to help reset your circadian

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  any specific questions you have while you're there :)   On that ... to events with people I already knew, but I wish I had spent more time ... environment)! For example, I talked to someone one time at CPW because we were

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024