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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... ’t think I should even try. Fuck your shit, was my response. I’m doing this. I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of ... had an answer to my friend’s question, I think the question of “what do

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked ... . it is normally in boston university, but this year we are doing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  to whatever it was you were originally doing, but can’t because you are ... do nothing, but sit above me acting blind to the tears that wish I ... other word. “Benjamin-behalf-the-Committee-is-pleasure-offer…….” Mom, it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a ... do to help with all these issues? Hatred, poverty, prejudice and ... doubt, as we have so many responsibilities and plans. But it’s do-able if

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ("department" - 100 words), What You Do That's Creative ("creativity" - 250 words

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... people in my wing, like “What do you miss most from high school?” or “Draw ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... with men from outside. The very fact that students do not live in ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  don't know, really. But, at the very least, what I do know is that I ... questions, like they were doing a study of this dish. It warmed my heart to ... fun events and, in that process, see all that we have to offer

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... . In Fading together, we ask the question: what do we, as puzzle authors, do about the fact that our work are ephemeral? We look to how theater

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... rain to shoot even when I had nothing to offer but my company, and for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  one semester. If you don't need 6.100B (not many courses do) then you ... .100L. I signed up for [annotation note="ALL TECHNICAL WHY DID I DO THIS ... except for the number keys, which only let me use 5 and 6. So I had to do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  high school doing this activity, I feel like it became an inseparable ... resounding "yes!" - congrats! "But- how do you do that?" Read on ;) (btw ... into something cool that you can do with your essay here, but please don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to ... August 9th with surveying and flagging out the footprint. Doing this ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for agreeing to be dined on. Residential Life doesn’t specify what will be doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  what I am majoring in? Why do I exist? I lost hope. I started to see no ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... you they are doing “okay.” Others decide to take on an impossible course

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• 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…

  

  Silicon Valley, I do need to admit that my educational trajectory to the MIT ... 't know what to do with our lives" is a common mantra among my high school ... of specializing to the extent that I would only be able to do one thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and ... something more to do, especially something that involved giving back to the next house community"]I have nothing better to do,[/annotation]so I apply

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020