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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  lately been less than exemplary. In addition, on Sunday evening, I ate ... and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for ... should try to move in some direction. I wish I were more convincing, or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even ... teens hadn”t seen me for four days in a row and I knew that they would ... transformative things can happen during these moments of being present in a space

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  the MIT crowd. Anyways, I can write a whole entry on french toast in ... I think I can/should do. “Oh yeah, I’ll take 60 units this fall, and ... year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out ... other about how I wasn't even bored. We talked about what classes I was ... before turning them in for good. If I don't sound terribly grateful to the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  , and one pset fewer than usual so i can pretend for an hour that i'm not ... my window and breathe in the fresh air; and sometimes when i'm walking ... will have to, because i can't let this happen again. when i look at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when ... in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I said of course, even though I can't stand because I absolutely love doing ... date. I had assumed that these took place in like February or March, but

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  This semester has been quite quiet so far - just how I like it.  And ... friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... exam is next week.  I have been studying what we've learned in class and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  rink. I used to take ice skating lessons in Indiana, but all I can ... currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern ... spent frolicking in Indiana. When I think fall, I think piles of crunchy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know ... ended. the classroom was in 34-101, and my next thing was in 34-501, so i ... some lunch, and sneak in some stardew valley before my next class. have i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling ... included the bonus song “Crazier” by Taylor Swift. I was drawn in by the the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  in September and resume my life as an MIT student. Until then, I can ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... been no different, unfortunately. I posted the following in the '11

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home ... might have guessed, I'm in that chair pretty often! I've been spending a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative answer. Expect an entry either later tonight or tomorrow about how I ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005