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• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like ... called an Application Essay, Objectives for Graduate Study, Personal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... earning letter grades for passing that do affect GPA, but you still will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... I spearheaded the organization and logistics for our three events. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... script). In other words, the number of lines that a character has. For

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  not know. I haven’t played games for years"]build as much ... a MechE friend. We bond over a shared love for the Killers. David ... .[/annotation] So I picked up the habit of carrying projects around, waiting for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have been such a cozy, homey place for me, a respite ... city I am learning to love tolerate. I'm living by myself for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... beings (alive or dead), so I opted for an interest in artificial ... engineering instead and went down that path for ~5 years Meanwhile, I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and ... started to improve, I'm remaining cautiously hopeful and optimistic for what ... a part of me that resented DPhiE for forcing me to move into the house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  and walk the Boston Marathon path. The planning for the walk started ... of proof-of-concept for both my planning methods and the distance ... distances and times for the trip. Eventually, Sunday hit, and it was time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days ... ="attachment_62937" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] strike for six![/caption] You ... lacks in those departments it more than makes up for in its gameplay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can ... , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs types (though, he did stress that this was really just for fun). Curious ... few other tests besides.   Debunking Myers-Briggs My result for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th ... homestay, and additional expenses for food and travel in Madrid. The rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for ... M. '18, Megan P. '18, and Anika Y. '18 (not pictured) for making House

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... advertisement for one of my friends. He jokingly mentioned that his goal for the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6 ... a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I went to bed around seven, slept for five hours, then headed to my writing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... report for Stu & crew; I figured I'd blog mine! Wednesday, July 13 ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010