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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  asked, "Why throw something away when you can tell a story about it?" Anyway, the Milk turns 21 today, which reminds me of another story: last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a ... – long story). Oxford has some really interesting programs and a very ... Scholar-elect from Southern California is also named Stephanie. Fun story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... past applicants who posted their success stories on College Confidential ... . And while this particular story has a happy ending, that's not the point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  blogger alum Mitra '07 took 21W.755: Writing and Reading Short Stories with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... . Early Hunt stories were an excuse plot, a story serving the needs of the ... story text. The complexity of the Hunt also increased: as a crude measure

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  opened my eyes to the untold story of limited-English proficiency patients ... English letters. Over the summer, these stories became too common ... person reading your essay will be bored too. Make it vivid - let your story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... a serial, because I finished this story in about an hour, and honestly ... . Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel that tells a story of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... said. “You never know what’s gonna happen.” He told me his story, or ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... cloudy sky while I was stressing out. Here's the same story, but told from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  (true story: used to run 13 minute miles in elementary school; see above ... them telling stories about her. Inevitably, a lot of stories came out about her and me, and how much we loved each other. My favorite story

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  page story, and other times they're as specific as "Write a four-line conversation in which the characters in Meder's story have a conversation with ... student's story about a mother with a brain tumor and the son that cares for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  trust them not to really stab him, etc. He also told us an amusing story

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... courage. In sharing your stories, you’ve taken a risk; you’ve opened your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... relatively distant future: our story instead concerns Monday, June 1, 1925

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  fishing for an interesting bit of information that might make a good story ... journalist wrote a compelling story, which got picked up by a number of other

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

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , when I tell them this story, become depressed. After all, if the kid who ... have? But they have it backwards. In fact, this story should be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  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…

  

  ? Did you spell your name right? (true story: I almost submitted my Common ... apps is this: your college application should read like a story, with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... tenure, I mean. Anyway, I digress. The happy ending to our story of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006