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

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  place. A very special place with so much to offer; but also, the parts of ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • February 15, 2023
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I ... note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  chose to do a Southeast-Asian-themed array of flavors, offering ube ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of ... with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If ... . Apparently I had a lot of thoughts. Now I’m curating them into something that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of ... there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... of a D9 organization. He grew up surrounded by [annotation note

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .177: Astrobiology, Origins and Early Evolution of Life (1) It's not offered this ... version of the class offered in the spring, 12.409! Return to Table of ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after ... episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT ... , because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things ... looks like it won't be interesting. Most of what I'll be writing about is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018