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• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... lot of writing, rewriting, deleting, and revising to get me to a point

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  of ways to do it, visiting, info sessions, websites, etc. She mentions ... schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a ... -binding. If you apply early and are accepted then you still get to wait to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  't really have time to study for. The website we were taking the quiz on crashed about two minutes in. I didn't get back to my dorm till 7:55pm ... forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... starting to get word of their roommates' names, along with the locations of ... links to some dorm tours put up by myself and the other bloggers: Baker

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  that was said, but I'd like to summarize it by saying that MIT admissions ... high school counselors signed up to listen to Matt's and Ben's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  headed on over to the Project Runway website to check out Ms. Eng's bio ... you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD ... as MIT (going to class, attending seminars by prominent scientists

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to ... presentation.” (2.ThA website) Some people choose to begin their research in the ... The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment"]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  addiction and so continued to lurk from time to time to get my fix. Some of my ... by deciding to go to a relatively small liberal-arts school because the ... seem like I executed this straight-line multi-year master plan to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life ... and to hopefully (crossing our fingers and toes) get them too.  So ... spent a lot of time troubleshooting and trying to get the HTC Vive they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  to drag my nasty cold-ridden body (I knew FYRE would get me sick ... exam. By noon, I was bored with the GRE practice exam, and decided to use ... minutes or so to shield my book and get rained on. Then it was time. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How do I contact a current student?

  MIT doesn't provide names or contact information for current students. To learn more about MIT from a student's perspective, please spend time ... website, you may follow the adventures of our student bloggers as they
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  's one answer I found: going to lectures by the super cool people who come ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... first thought in my head will be the study group I had to get me through ... all the Ivies? Well, for one, CPW. Go to CPW if you get the chance, it

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... in order to get myself from Zero Knowledge to Some Knowledge. My fellow ... to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014