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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... !!! this is one of the most awesome perks about our student ID - I've been ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures ... . Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  works! I hope in the future, once our alarm clock is finished, to ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... difference. 9:38pm: The article on women faculty, coming in at 1,600 words, is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... . Yet Caroline is now contemplating switching to Course 14, Michelle is in ... , academics, grades were the most important, which has taken me two years to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to ... wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... excitement and protectiveness over the frosh. There is much to learn and plenty

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... missed dearly in Cambridge is the ability to do UROP/research during the ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  react to rejection is one of the most important life skills you can learn ... to East Campus and Simmons for having the top two most responses, 18 ... opportunity is really a blessing in disguise. The hard thing is, the blessing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... -time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... like "The best sorority is..." or "You have to take this.." or "Actually the best dorm is..." when in reality there really is no best or worst

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... . Muti also has a water problem. All the water in Muti is delivered through ... only clean water source that remains is the one next to the secondary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... to see this binder be filled, or to see what was to come in the minute

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  management is probably the most accurate word for it. But then I started to ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It ... in the undergraduate curriculum, as well as giving opportunities to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... review sessions held immediately preceding to fill in the gaps between the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... can only shed so much while you remain in the same place. When you ... to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014