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  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way you ... i choose that will still be meaningful and make me memorable to the ... enjoyable and relaxing way to exercise creativity while connecting with others

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  involves clear, transparent documentation of the actions that need to be ... voice. As Hassan puts it, that voice can be as simple as the ability to ... to be executed, and the project funder may decide a payment release

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... , and if they weren't so sweet I would have been way more embarrassed by

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the ... they're called that). For the next month, the admissions staff will be ... awesome. It is incredibly inspirational to read about you and see just how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  by a coyote to be relevant? She has to ditch her friends, who are ... hoping to be enlightened and empowered by a whimsical teen comedy just ... -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  then apply it to biological systems. It will be a love/hate relationship when I begin to write my applications; I will enjoy being able to write ... questions in science, but it will also be a little scary to give the next 5 to

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  , I really wanted to learn, and what a better way to learn than by doing ... things being remote, so I was really excited to create something truly ... be a spread lead, and was accepted. I then pitched the idea to the club

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... to be pretty packed inside the Z-Center. As you can imagine, it was ... couldn't believe it at first to be honest. As an added bonus too, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... (Burton-Conner used to be separate dorms, Burton and Conner, but were joined ... started, just start writing down what motivates you. Maybe you want to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Lunch

  

  I've gotten a few search engine hits for "MIT ISEF Luncheon," so for ... and guests from 2:30 to 4pm on Thursday (May 12th) at Majerle's Grill ... are excited to provide their yummy lunch for the ISEF finalists and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  teaches you how to be a good leader as well as a good team player. I don ... design class that I need to understand the basics of being a product ... initiative by an organization my professor started to provide "a cooperative

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  managed to successfully innovate a way to blow glass while wearing a mask ... , trying to make ourselves better. How can both be true? Failing to believe ... ."]frit.[/annotation] My mentor advises me that if I want the color to be solid throughout, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just ... experience my first DTYD this April!! Shirts/Shirt Names: The easiest way to ... , but I've got 3rd more years to improve. Son of Bomber by Karen Dubbin

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham ... to the calm Porter Square. I highly recommend going—you’ll be shocked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the ... . Bryan, what are you doing today? I'm going to GRAD SCHOOL! I surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  allow engineers to so transform our world. By studying the ways that ... technical knowledge to be able to implement the infrastructure, but that I ... conditions. I'm focusing on experiential learning and ways to better prepare

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  captained by my friend Dan '03. Way to go! Dan '03 of The Evil Midnight ... Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers ... entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... -eyed twenty-three year old MIT Admissions officer used to be; how did that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by ... , Euripedes - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library brought to Egypt by ... know that it's totally possible to study Lots Of Things at MIT - to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014