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

  

  high school doing this activity, I feel like it became an inseparable ... da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at ... resounding "yes!" - congrats! "But- how do you do that?" Read on ;) (btw

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  announcements of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts. FIFA was not doing me a favor ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... 'm leaving the list just so you know what was offered): DA: Discover

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider, for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... "]UROP?[/annotation] B: Because I need a job. A: Why do you need a job? B: Because I need

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... 'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing ... books and do the things I wanted. To some extent, I did. I was ... goats, and do random crafts to keep up the charm: make goat cheese and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  or skiing and me staying home to work. I wouldn’t do that. If I could do things over I would work less, kayak more, photograph more sunrises ... being completely honest about what I’d been doing since I sent my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... the iconic beaver on it. But our ring this year, in 2018, the year of ... Comm was a HUGE time sink, it was time I would rather have spent doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering ... any real footage of me doing stuff--I’m behind the camera!)   ... helped set us up with some of his classmates who were planning to do some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  of bridges, had to design theoretical bridges, and will continue to do ... in 2018, but even in a state of disarray the Longfellow had wormed its ... thought it best to walk him across the bridge so he wouldn’t have to do it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of ... had an answer to my friend’s question, I think the question of “what do

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... works, what else can you do? Like The Blogfather said, the “fun and ... point. But really, do it because it’s the best way to learn about your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and ... something more to do, especially something that involved giving back to the next house community"]I have nothing better to do,[/annotation]so I apply

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... research you do about colleges, things might change in ways you never could ... , and you actually do like having seasons and winter. If I choose to go to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a studfinder. You ask me for ... Life workers everywhere stop what they are doing and hum along in perfect pitch ... do not receive applications. You send out an email for UA applications

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ? Learn anything The extracurricular he really likes doing Hi, are you ... anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ."]cliffhangers.[/annotation] Have to do my homework *ugh*.[annotation note="I made a Facebook that ... [annotation note="Don't ASK me why I typed like this okay, every one was doing ... mit i dont even know what im going to do with my life i dont even want

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  2018 Pie! Anybody else channel an excess of feelings into baking? The

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019