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  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  character – for example, if this applicant were to show up wearing a jacket ... just wondering. for the interview...is that too unprofessional? the nose ... nose ring. (Or, for my friend Alvar '98 PhD '05, a lot more than just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , asking him for the reasons that he ended up going somewhere else instead of ... pull up read receipts from conversations. Like this one: It’s funny to ... ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... . Once you’ve stayed up with someone till 7am, multiple times, just talking ... . Meet your high school friends over break. Oh, and brace yourself for an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... woke up and realized that I’d left everyone hanging, without actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... word was “nosy”), living for witnessing others’ moments. I hope I will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put up celebrating the brilliant and diverse faculty, professors, and staff ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  XNEQ&ab_channel=EvelynFromTheInternets Sozin’s Comet: Everything was building up for the ultimate battle between ... searching recipes of pictures I had collected earlier. I looked up recipes for ... Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  . i am scared for what i will see when i wake up tomorrow morning don ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... -scooter-curling. Finally, Paul'13, who grew up in a traveling circus, started balancing the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• 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…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy

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

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

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015