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

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... conditioning shock me. “We do it because we want you to be happy,” my

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... Adam's CEO finished undergrad here in 1979, then continued on to do his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... . In Fading together, we ask the question: what do we, as puzzle authors, do about the fact that our work are ephemeral? We look to how theater

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... you're going to do, like have someone still in Boston mail it to you, but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... interviewed several Africans that were doing amazing projects on the continent ... about simply capturing what all my amazing classmates were doing in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  this as my reality, letting my work define who I was. I stopped doing the ... so boring? I felt stripped of all the personality I had from doing the ... you to make time to do the things you want to do. My work often has me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  previous week and I did not do much other than study. There were lots of naps ... having fun, and they were doing it guilt-free and not under the guise of ... ’t you transfer out?” Eric asked. “Why would I do that?” We stopped on top

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... experienceexcept at night I'll go back to Berkeley and do my problem sets. So the ... DO FOR YOU? But this entry was about problem sets at one point

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... ? First: Mom, Dad, and sis are doing really well.  We’re living in ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... this semester, wondering about how alternate-universe-Paolo is doing with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... together and do a bunch of math for a week. Thousands and thousands of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an upperclassmen told freshmen me that I should do it ASAP during orientation week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  MLK lol but i do identify with the combination of sensitive ... Hufflepuff: “I do like baking (that's a thing hufflepuffs do, right?)” On ... like to think I do, because I really liked her character (I also suffer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
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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 ... people with depression do. Instead, it felt like someone had scooped out ... for me to feel enough alarm to do anything about it. Sitting around all

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... ’t think I should even try. Fuck your shit, was my response. I’m doing this. I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• 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
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... else we still need to do before everyone leaves: pick our songs for next ... true. I really need to do laundry, which means that all my usual shirts

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
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  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
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... . While it has several good machines, the lack of space makes it hard to do ... ’t do jumping exercises without hitting them or standing in particular

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024