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  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…

  

  . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... else might need to make sense of the essay. Like, you might know that ... baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  looking for perfection. One does not need straight As to get into MIT. Some ... how does grad school admissions work? Do you need to get straight As all ... an internet fee or anything like that in the dorms? How much does it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between ... we need to become the person who we’re supposed to be, that we have ... a utilitarian really mattered that much to me. It’s easier said than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

   sometimes assume that my grandparents will live forever and therefore I don't need to ... that the tools we needed in order to pull off the dream version of the ... southern comfort feels.   What does self-care look like to you?  Bryan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... worsening stomachache is the initial sign for appendicitis, which needs to be

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  wrong, now that i’m conscious of it. as much as i want to blame capitalism ... was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  mind. Humans haven’t managed to figure out much about consciousness and ... ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but ... doesn’t care; I could shield you. There is so much more for you to learn ... to be something much greater than I have been… there remains within me

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening ... Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  talk to every single sorority at least once. It was admittedly pretty ... preparation and decoration that needed to be done to make sure the PNMs felt ... .  Here is a link to more information that has everything you need to know

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate ... . —Robo-CJ What? wearing sweatpants. once you start, you never want to stop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

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

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  type who does physics and is MIT ’17. He was never eligible to join NHS ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... Infinite or Gala needed graphics made, I kind of just scrambled to put ... sabine![/caption] Much like the plotter project, I also meant to write an

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  to just slip away once official business was over, or who couldn ... likely to need support aren't left behind because they are exactly the ... to plenty of events. And yet, it is so much easier to log off virtually

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had ... Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  from when I've last seen her. "Talk to your grandma as much as you can ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... ? Coming into MIT, I had been told over and over: "you will need to find

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  doing. I will never catch up to talent that works hard no matter how much ... striving to be the best that I can be.  There’s so much more left to say ... usually a lot of what is needed to succeed is based on what other people

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  much install anything you wanted, suddenly not being able to was a shock ... guide to food. Everything depends on your location, budget, and needs. But ... budget, I do try to limit my expenses as much as possible. I'm nicely

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019