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  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... mind. But there is no checklist for an essay. An essay should not serve

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  flight to catch up on literature, for example. This eventful schedule ... old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how ... wind up feeling highly impersonal. Now, what is even more ironic is ... participate in a discussion for me. But for STEM classes, there are often very

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of ... for me was the culture. I didn't realize this until I started visiting ... buildings are always open. You can easily find an open classroom for students

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... to GRADUATE from a college. I know that this is hard for you, but you ... people with two different sets of talents, abilities, interests, goals for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  .) Psets stand for Problem Sets, and they are the equivalent of the "homework ... classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... psets count for a fair bit in 14.01 (Intro Econ)), your cumulative problem

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  them in to make searching for the actual classes easier if anyone wants ... 1, showing us more ways to build roads for really small things and ... I learned a lot from, but up goer five was not having it with so many

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  that’s been on everyone’s mind for the past week. The pre-wedding dinner ... in my head. I saw snow for the first time earlier this month. I woke up thirty minutes before my first class, and rushed into this speedy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  stating what you read in the textbook. For example, often bio exams ... freshmen are taught to memorize phylum names and label parts of a plant for ... ." ---- Without further ado, here are the "finalists" for the photo contest from, uh

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Sunday. Just look for the person with the "MIT" sign near the baggage claim ... ), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for ... MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me ... personal schedule for myself and started working on my first task.  Roughly ... from my parents alerting me that the restaurant was busy. For some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... buildings left, and East Campus is going offline for renovation at the end of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  shotgun house in the Bywater, soaking up the sunshine and warm wet air before I fly back to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I’m on my own for now; my cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the ... , with a different overarching theme each time. It’s known for 1) focusing

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states ... and up the sides of roads, through the heat of the mid-afternoon to the ... building up the stamina and mental capacity and just plodding your way down

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... ). After you submit your application, you may be contacted for an interview ... about it (I will talk more about this later); it’s one way for us to get

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... is probably not worth ten billion dollars, so it would be better for me ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Lord knows that I've beat this dead horse and milked this subject for ... I don't like for the sake of getting it? I knew of 21E, but I had my ... pursuing computer science careers? or am I thought as lesser than for not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  had lots of leftovers for the next day too! We also made this same ... ingredient. We didn't have the red lentils that the dish called for, only ... lentils for an hour, at which point they should be squish-able. That did not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019