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  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But ... rules of writing well. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start ... semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and ... the end of something makes it awesome) and Arlo to my left is making models** of infall and other processes in protostars, with his headphones

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... , that was more than enough. If you did that in high school, and it worked

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  small breather of vacation time between reading Early and Regular applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and ... my shows, and thus there is a smaller likelihood that something will

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  at 5th East the night before. It's right across the street, and walking ... tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... kitchen--sink, cabinets, two refrigerators, stove, and oven. No lugging a ... burrito, or that you shouldn't put pita chips in the oven and then forget

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  . Also, I've gotten comments from high school juniors and sophomores, so I ... that any of them had ever been read, and kind of arbitrarily gave them ... first sentence coming true, and the last one still more or less applies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  decided to take matters into my own hands and e-mail Professor Christoper A ... science and engineering (Course 3).   Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17 ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  I stay, will you go? And if I go, will you stay? I don't know If I can ... decision theory textbooks, rationality blog posts, and sappy screeds about ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... programs/internships and so on. Through all this, I've learned that writing ... differently than cover letters, and so on. It's been an up and down roller

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  thing, expecting the tabs to be gone afterwards. Yet, they persist, and ... back to. Mostly, I just scroll back up to them and read them whenever I ... Oliver - the "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  jumped in to the kid's defense and started roundhouse kicking those bikers ... finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a razor blade! I had just finished off his buddy and turned around to face

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  received this mysterious black briefcase in [annotation note="Formerly (and ... ) and definitely does not look suspicious at all. So let's open it up and ... 's more like two classes. Specifically, 6.2060 and 21M.370 (Digital Musical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and ... make up for that loss! Like our famous ball pit and Gymmons, our ... cat now! (And what a beautiful cat he is, might I add.) Pspspspsps

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... . Polyhedral puzzles are beautiful both aesthetically and mathematically

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I ... to Trader Joe’s to pick up caprese ravioli and pork shu mai  and let

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the ... ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my ... electrical outlets"]some despairing, others encouraging, and yet more cracking

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  hosting things like ring premiere, delivery, and various study breaks and ... dressing up and looking nice. But also because I think the brass rat is ... "] me and emma s. '23 doing our signature frat boy poses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  . this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum ... you must discard down to seven. six. i didn't do much this iap and that ... and you all should read it. it's novella-length but it's really good i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021