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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online ... , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only ... in The Waiting Room that many EA admits have been wondering how they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... , in fact, there was an O'Reilly puzzle of sorts, and it was one of the ... teammates scouring the libraries for a copy of this new book. We were all in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... bus from Emeryville, CA, another fifty-six hours later. All in all, the trip totals seventy-eight hours of travel, with a four-hour layover in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  some fun with it. Writing it was ridiculously fun. Let's dive in now ... around his small, money-sucking apartment, a pinprick in the vast mix of ... , dressed in her usual dark-leather gear, shaking her head and sighing. “You

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring ... , and more that we'll check out later in this tour!   Roberts Field A ... varsity teams call Roberts home. In the fall, women and men's soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I was both working in the Navy full-time and attending college full ... . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align ... school, I danced at home for fun, twirling through my kitchen in socks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... , but I figured in an effort of maintaining my brand of transparency I ... break, I went to visit my family on Big Island in Hawai'i. I took this as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... that in allston and almost threw up because of the smog. but!!! there

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live ... entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog ... in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... voices in sci-fi/fantasy, and the importance of story. On good weeks you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Line in Porter Square. It was a snowy night. The grimy piles of snow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note ... with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free time, skills that come in handy when it comes to hand-crafted memes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you ... involved putting seven shelves’ worth of class supplies in boxes and moving ... organized and labeled and it’s actually really nice. Classes began in full

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020