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

  

  , and sometimes the opening sentence is the most important factor in "luring" the reader in. The college essay is very much the same way - the ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  intrigues me the most is called Pick Your Poison. In it, the Mafia is given a ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  approaches is vulnerable to falling in. Others crawl along the forest floor ... to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a ... ; Day 2: Pocket In transitioning from a Web to a Pocket, the critter has

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... Course 2 stuff in developing countries And the people who helped me to ... she wasn't able to graduate, she most definitely is a part of mine. tl

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to ... start applying your humanities knowledge to everything.) In the Assassins

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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  ="cj: not actually unlimited"]unlimited gas[/annotation] in the East Campus ... bath, you only have to set the temperature. Easier than most MIT classes ... sensory bias (a.k.a. the steak I prefer the most)."]“best”.[/annotation] In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  is causing the microcontroller to intermittently shut itself off and ... is heading in. We're forced to explain our progress so far without ... problem – the motor for the opening mechanism is drawing too much

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  the most of what is available to you.   3. Grad school was tough ... to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  people. I felt like a failure! In my mind I had sunk to the lowest point ... .01 met in a large conference room next to the [annotation note="It's a ... ."]Outfinite[/annotation]and had hundreds of students in it, taught by some of the most well known

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

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  -anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out ... helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... /bioengineering grad programs. 1. The most important thing is to figure out why you want

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations. The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... , especially in the early fall, when the water is still and the sky is impossibly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color ... is on their way to the World Solar Challenge in Australia! Support them ... personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever ... me she heard about a daycare in the town next to ours that had job ... -studied ten of them in total, and got mostly 5s and some 4s. Robby is I guess

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... shadowrun alone is pretty much impossible; you need the help of others. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  the questions that this blog post attempts to answer, for mostly selfish ... more than I knew. In time, I started to feel alienated by the corporate ... happened all at once in the 16.07 classroom. We choose to go to the moon

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... : you climb up to the platform like you’re climbing up to a diving board

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  . The typical track that most people submit to is the 'full paper' track ... was going to have me submit to the Student Game Design Competition in ... some context in the area you're researching, what you're going to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020