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  ten reflections on mit

  

  literally a decade ago; but, I can definitely say that I knew that MIT existed ... note="rip"]Google Hangouts[/annotation] which means that I can literally ... thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben ... eventually. I have the worst time letting go of things, but you can't force ... with two of the most supportive parents a girl can ask for, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for years. Like this one I found the other day; you can see the date ... saying "I know a spell that can beat that challenge!" Neville's broken into ... goals, and more interested in how I can accomplish them. That doesn't mean

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... ! Many people stress out about the "Department" essay, but I can tell you ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I ... human. Even on this blog, where I can say exactly and precisely I want, I ... It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... be about. As an admissions officer, I recognize that while the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles! if you prefer reading your information you can read the blog down below

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... 在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I can always make new choices down the line if I figure out that my choice ... entirely, but it does get harder to go to grad school. If I decide to go to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... of the campus COVID-19 lockdown—I was permitted to visit the office to ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  featuring avocado, soy sauce, and a few other ingredients that i can no longer ... that i can never really change the color underneath. as i’ve stumbled ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  getting lazy. And that's okay: it happens. Now that I see it, I can do ... rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Kornbluth tells me. I have to agree, that does sound pretty funny. She then ... in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... feel like we’re representing all of womankind. I really can’t even begin ... intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... them to my dad and asked “Does this sound like me?” In my essays, I ... (embarrassingly) close to the due date. I can almost hear my high school counselor

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... below fills me with fresh giddiness that I still can’t shake off. At the ... because all I can think of are MIT’s open bathrooms waiting on the other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  done, as it always does. But it's days like these when I feel I should ... I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007