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  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... hallways, and buy lunch together. We could head downtown Boston and window

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3 ... -verbal. Cat 1 will roll around in pollen if left outside, creating an allergen

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  [/annotation] there just days after my 21st birthday in 2018. I remember the line ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is ... different, both in [annotation note="the width of the charles varies wildly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... even formative moments, in some way, will vanish from my internal stores

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... ordinary. Sometimes it's small, a chainsaw in a wooden case, sitting in a ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... have gaps in my memory from that time that will probably never be filled ... , working alone or in tandem, that happened my freshman fall might have

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left, just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... , and they will all look soft and warm and inviting in the same way the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... around campus and making friends and everything else in-between. Indeed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... .  Secure a room in student housing from the Housing Office.   ... the exchange coordinator buys into that argument.  Drop by the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... was rejected by every school, but then she got that fateful tube in the ... got into every school ever! or No one believed in her until she got into

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

    N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... people and make event hopping friends. K: Also, if you're interested in ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I ... you passed. What I've noticed, both from the comments in the admissions ... got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Parents will label these as

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016