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  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... the sort) that made them just a hell of a lot more special than me? Sound familiar? Two of the last three summers, I've had the wonderful

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... nor flight but freeze. because on the good days, the meds work. the meds work, the weather's good, and my executive control is sharp enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute ... grade of one. The longest, about 400 words, got the top grade of six. In ... also reward good short essays, they said, but the College Board erred by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... that may never happen. My heart is broken for Boston and the victims of ... parents of a good friend of mine, and a fellow MIT alum, Rich Whalley '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the stairwell opening into the third floor, there's a mural of our banner with our

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading ... neat (and Emmy-nominated!) series called The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... monument of Coastal Redwoods near the bay area, came into family discussion ... choose from, although some of the trail names were misnomers: We passed

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made ... scavenge the town dump (the social center of some New Hampshire towns) for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the ... very little time. By the end of every lecture, you probably have four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some ... culture, but not in the sense of knowing much about its history or being part of any sort of "tradition" within it, except maybe the politically

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  satisfy the rare intersection of (a) producing coffee good enough that I ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to ... (CPW activities booklet), 15% discount at the COOP, $20.12 worth of Tech

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be ... issues such as suicide. I respect the sentiments of the original poster, and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... these questions rooted in our societal issues with the cult of youth blah

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears organically in the form of a hobby, or perhaps an inspiring book. Others may ... living up to another’s expectations. No matter the means of inspiration

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps ... and 1.5-2 meal days become the norm. While the stereotype of the ramen ... made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the ... of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... either pay the application fee of US$65 or obtain a fee waiver. Fee waivers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... songs put together into one sound. I enjoy the unexpectedness of their ... patterns like the back of my hand and anticipate every next move? What if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  good food, I highly recommend! I'm learning a lot about the 'agile ... really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018