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  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... few extra days to submit our applications. The due date was moved to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can't buy pomegranate juice ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  agonizing over whether I could afford to buy orange juice. (The answer was ... to buy orange juice if I want to.  Removing the financial stress leaves ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh*t together learn to become highly-responsible, functioning, independent

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  —that way you only have to buy supplementary ingredients. BODY Don’t neglect ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... resulting mostly-unfiltered list of Things We Want You To Know When You Start

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... -quality, glossy paper led to a wider palette of colors. Collectors started buying ... threatens our creativity by anchoring us to the past. I'm not sure I buy this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  abroad. Take classes that involve field work. Buy cheap tickets to Europe ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  during committee, buy low-glycemic index snacks to avoid spikes and crashes ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . Frobert ‘13 It’s your turn in Star Realms. You go to buy the Mech World, but ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016