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  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.   Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... something to personalize their room, and they're all very creative in different ways. I asked my friends to show me what real Simmons dorm rooms

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  When it comes to Boston’s music scene, it certainly isn’t lacking ... that whatever they are, I love listening to them. I admire music and ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the character Moushumi. If you've read this book, please feel free to send me an ... evaluating myself lately. Feel free to just skim the bullet points because the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... " but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern ... you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. We know you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... older couple from Bruges who are going to spend the next few months

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs. Adding some answers to FAQs... Early action applications should be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a ... it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us additional information when they apply to MIT. (Other options include Music

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  was way too much to handle, especially because my course load was so ... little... hypocritical, I know. But it happens. It's very easy to get sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient advice to give. But I really think Ms. Frizzle summed it up best when she

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging ... plan to send out any admissions decisions by mail, though admitted

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010