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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  ="107775" image5="107776" /] I made this book, “Conversations for Beginners,” for ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... Morningside Academy for Design']blanket quilting workshop[/annotation], and now

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

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  student group that runs educational programs for middle and high school ... for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days ... , so I dropped it for a while. With a spark of inspiration, I looked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... legally prohibited for decades. As the law stands now, the only reason we may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  residents can tap into 24/7. Since the [annotation note='the primary gym for ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... ground for challenging other aspects of myself beyond my name - hobbies ... all the time - for real or under the guise of pset parties - exchanging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... the world works. Nothing can be done without consideration for politics

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011