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  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Grow Up. I can’t listen to Never Grow Up for long without tearing up ... lyrics--Taylor Swift’s voice. For at the least the past eight years ... shower, while grocery shopping, probably even in my sleep. For the longest

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for ... also known for its generous financial aid packages for international

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out ... seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  my waking up at 2 P.M.) As I order pizza from Domino’s for lunch, I ... its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for ... posters were done very well. i unfortunately only pulled up for the half the ... decisions, i believe i pulled up for a while and jammed for a bit. very fun, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... , he would call up Milton with an idea, and they would work on it for a ... throughout the country for the past year, with intermittent internet shutdowns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  professor that I've had the pleasure of learning from for the past three ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... this year). Stu's blog posting is closed for comments, but some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  Netflix for eight hours and it's completely acceptable because, hey, at ... lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up ... to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , so I'll save it for later :D First, let's talk about computing. MIT ... processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... for the Institvte, which explains its high ceilings and open spaces

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up ... inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  MIT was just letting me fail. I showed up for class and was forced to ... , nothing that could prepare me for MIT physics. There should have been indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... expensive). March 22nd came and Michelle and I loaded up our backpacks with ... looked around for prefrosh. None. We headed towards Dunkin' Donuts for some

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... corresponded. Fun for toute la famille! I think that you could play the same game ... movements for you, and sings the chorale melody on which the entire cantata is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  spectrum of introductory classes as you established a track for elective ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... your application essay for MIT should probably use a little more varied ... prepositional phrases are always nice too. When I Grow Up When I grow up, I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005