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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... exceptions. It asks who you are. It demands to know who you are. It's about ... because I feel it's something you might need to hear. I'm also sharing this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... stories or letters to applicants (though it is always great to practice a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... .) But anyways, back to the original point of this story. It was on this ... we admit that kid? What happened to that other person? Did he make it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I ... have to helping other people. It can be as trivial as cheering up a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... ability, to practice it, then that ability may just lay dormant, and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  it may surprise you to know that even an institution as old as MIT has ... maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it ... support worker. But a microphone is a suprisingly handy thing to have – it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT ... conditioning shock me. “We do it because we want you to be happy,” my

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the ... fast-rising waters. It's still depressing to think about this. It feels

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself ... least I noticed it today) I'm probably going to be more hesistant about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... like you've chosen the right one - it's fairly easy to change, since ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  , or if I should wait until after? But if I do it after, I'll have to ... , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in ... .806 office hours, it's my turn to be hopelessly confused. I ask questions that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then ... was able to keep it under the surface, until I got that email the week

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  don't get it."]"Bring more women to MIT".[/annotation] The author muses ... in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... Weekend". It's probably reasonable to assume that there were still two

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  critiques the video at certain points, forcing it to repeatedly pivot to ... students are also asked what it means to be "smart" at MIT. One mentions ... understand after I've finished several problems utilizing a concept. It takes a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... concentration and maybe I regret it a little"]21H.273: From Coca to Cocaine: Drug

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019