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  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  had signed up for because, “Hey, there might be free cookies!” (There ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... undergraduates and alumni for miniature, month-long internships. Externships are

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the ... things you can find just by looking around on the site -- for example

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they ... introduced for Team Hamentashen. We're all receiving paper plates in the ... for the latkes again. They're playing a video of a tour in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview ... besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising future you ... time. And you’d wake up every day knowing that MIT’s just down the road

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... benevolent than the rough and tough beaver chosen for the 2005 ring. He

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... go to Harvard Med, and I'm not even premed. But never fear (?), for I ... , and I'll be doing my PhD for at least the next five or six years, so we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... program that will save 200 lives for sure. In the second version, one ... . The overall admission rate for the class of 2009 was 14.3%. (From here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... /astro. We broke up. He didn't get in. He was devastated. You may see where ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a whim, not knowing what to expect. We ended up throwing together a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning ... my face, packed up my things and stepped outside in a t-shirt and my ... given up at 11, or 1 or 2, with these daytime thoughts long gone from my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... once a week, or we can just pick up tours as they become available. A ... haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... of the day sitting in front of our computers, but spice things up with ... tried to hug Carl Sagan, but ended up awkwardly covering his mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  lessons along the way: 1) For the grittiest frosting you'll ever taste (feel ... graphic design for personal websites, music videos, robotics and circuitry ... hundredth) Photoshop, SketchUp or Sculptris project. More specifically, I get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... and relaxing music. We picked out our studs for the next eight weeks and ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... already made up my mind was too nerdy, too narrow, and too, well, male to be ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  originate, the office appropriate for the guild assassinate. Aftrate a short ... on a grocery cart, that I had taken up the Student Center elevator. On ... of tea. What this gathering was for I do not know, well perhaps this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  . Here at MIT, the date is significant for a different reason - it's the ... type of relationship you have - on the spectrum from just hooking up to full blown monogamy - it'll take up a non-trivial amount of your time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018