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• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  remember how to write in cursive anymore, and don't know how I managed it ... You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  me incredibly giddy knowing that I get to live in the house with ... privilege of meeting and seeing how some people won't even bother getting to ... conversations around diversity and what it means to be in a sorority and how its

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  of Framingham, Massachusetts. And get this: we came in third place ... went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  enough to get Jeremy '09 in our suite this year, who idolizes Mike Short ... emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put ... underneath the speaker on the right. Because sometimes, in between learning how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to get placed into the recitation sections you want! No matter how you ... good time to mention that if you get into running, it really, really

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... tendency. when i'm with others, i try to exist in the moment, but when it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  experiences. ^_^   4. How do I enroll? Log in to your myMIT account and ... to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is ... the place for you, we thank you for letting us get to know you this year

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a ... through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... school in the fall. Anyways, remember to reminisce, even in something that ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  definitely reinforced what I learned in 3.012. I am excited, however, to get ... out to get ice cream with us one night!  MIT also beat West Point in the ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite of it all. Aside from holding Mary Oliver close to the heart, how might

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  interview; you know how to prioritize, triage, get stuff done. But it teaches ... ."]I cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to ... mistakes, and decide how you'll try to improve and be better next time. Can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the ... piece despite being published in 1948. “They do say,” Mr. Adams said to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... . this applies in sitautions like, not knowing the password to something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022