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  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  , always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing ... . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical ... learn how to design a research project and see it through, and that is

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... to take either the 2" (50.8 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm) wide rolls, one can ... 3 to 4 times its original length before breaking. That is what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will ... lot of work, to relax sometimes and hang out with your friends. It makes

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... this year), decided that it would be fun to put a wooden rail between two ... go, this pic has lots of people in it. From left to right, we have Milo

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... York, and yes it was my fault but I’m still going to hate on the food I ... flavourful. considering that they’re sandwiches it can’t be that complex but i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  have much awareness to enter in to the MIT. can i know it please" Swapna ... @mit.edu. ------------------------------------- Dan wrote, "sry to just jump in as a complete unknown person XD, its ... Shanghai China, I really wonder if there is anything I can do right now to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to ... the lab and shown it to a TA, I have a day's break where I won't go into

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... having to park it on a dirty latrine). Maybe we took the whole maturing ... stuff in your ice cream. And then see what happens to you after you eat it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  that story. Suffice it to say that declaring a history major on top of ... final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to ... it's always pretty awesome to see what people come up with :) We

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of ... Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... quickly, partially due to his ability to pipette with both hands ... Institute “adheres to the purposes for which it was chartered and that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my ... like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time to make it work. Anyway, I spent all morning putting together the ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... 's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... everything on it. Still, it makes me look past the psets/tests to come and look

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  It all ends tonight. Last 8.02 exam. Last 14.01 pset. Last 5.111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to ... (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  the player wanted, as long as it was on Google Maps. Yet another team ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... taken, just fake it to make it.  I’ve heard people say -- usually to ... am unhappy and what else I can do to be happy (usually, one of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  , it was weird enough to draw my attention from the cops and look around ... , having just got my bike thus summer and only used it for a few short trips ... pronounce it “later,” so I’m going to talk about Delve. As a treasurer of ESP

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011