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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class"]about ASEs[/annotation] and classes we want to take and the swim test. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... really, really know yourself, to the point that if you keep reading over

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Where it all began. I will not describe this one much. No need to commute ... On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  !” But will we really? It’s hard to be optimistic about the future right ... notice, the office will be working remotely, will not reopen until at least ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Bargain shopping is not for the faint of heart, but for those willing to ... , reset, and get back to the core of who I am and who I want to be. Petey I ... goal is to be able to get Riley to ride the Red Line and behave in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you ... am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... tried to avoid being the 1,000th person who said they would want to travel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  primary art form of our generation. The bezel would not be complete without ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  see people not only enjoy the dish, but also learn how to make it ... somewhere new and starting fresh that enables people to be more open-minded. I ... . I didn’t even have to announce that I was making the dish: the aroma

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  she ever decided to turn her powers against humanity, the world would ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get into MIT. The major reasoning behind my decision to go here was that it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... names nontrivially affect the names they'll be known by. Many interns end ... hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... , 10, 4, 8 (east). At one point believed to be the longest contiguous ... dorm, in addition to being residents of the dorm's community. A dorm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Tony, who was on the MechE sub-team, not Software, came to help as well ... -ordering extra buck converters that turned out to be essential, and others on the ... more stressful to be drawn into the all-consuming pit of 2.009 when your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  opportunity to be sure. It's not every day that you get to see snipers, the ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... President to be announced, but nothing happened. Eventually the sound guys

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... text as I walk and try not to drop anything. 10.28 am: I check the ... constitution using only my phone. (It appears to be a mostly-but-not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  first names. We could talk about the things I like, if that will help. We ... camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... could talk about the things I like, if that will help. We could talk for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023