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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... . enough rambling. =p 1. Froyo is meant for experimenting. So it is the same ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is ... climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost ... .”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures ... is not as accommodating. Scary, isolated tasks like midterm exams ... days. Anomalies take precedence over whatever steady-state work is at the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... here are some pictures I took leading up to the move. This is what my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , MIT is hard. It will be harder than anything you've seen. But you'll be ... levels look like or go get the game! :) Your first semester is Luigi ... /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game, which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do ... department tells me all the time that physics is hard for him, so he routinely ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  practical advice recently (which is probably more helpful than this list) and ... , whether home is driving distance from MIT or halfway across the world. Moving into a college dorm is a new experience with new responsibilities

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in ... and watched things. This is what I wrote: Journal, evening, Tuesday, January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp &

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how ... ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... cook-off didn’t [annotation note="which is probably for the best, at

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... brighten your day. So, what is this dish? Pakaprow is a spicy Thai basil meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like ... a lot. But it's also comforting; it is possible to have a fulfilling

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... like someone else. “I understand why this is hitting you so hard,” she

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions.org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... already learned multivariable calc (even if they won't use it) is a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on ... caught the Hamilton references in the blog title, this is actually my most

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016