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  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... to get in!!!!!!!!!! (But you probably knew that, and if you planned to ... probably get away with generalizations in your essays because that's how you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind ... peek in the bathroom shows me that my body wash is going to run out! Well

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer—how ... Airbender, write poetry, and spend more time getting to know the area better ... forwards to looking back, and seeing the changes creep in. One final note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm slowly starting to learn how to quiet the small voice in my head that says ... community no matter how hard I'm struggling. But, of course, in my efforts to ... -mail from Petey, and I excitedly turned to my friend in DPD saying "Oh my God

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  my friend and his friend next to him and thinking of how much I didn ... person I met in my freshman year to the person that sits with me now ... and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... ). Plus, I heard a certain Tim Beaver is planning on being there to get his rock on. He's been known to get a little crazy. See you there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions ... exactly how you're going to celebrate. Lunch or dinner with friends is a ... -med-ers and MCAT-ers. I wish you all the luck in the world :) P.S. Good luck to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... reminds me of my old high school habits. In high school, I pushed myself to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... to get from one side of the road to the other. Because there aren't any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2 ... in mathematics research. I'm not even close to choosing." Or, "It's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people who might otherwise never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  big thought, so get comfortable. The last science fair I went to was in ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... Waterpark. This means I get paid a very small hourly wage to stand outside all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his ... .” Manolis’s interest in biology, and genetics in particular, also appears to ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  repercussions turned out to bite me in the proverbial butt. Thus is the beginning ... problems are concerned with teaching you how to think, making you understand ... figure it out, but that's the point. I didn't explicitly know how to solve

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  laid out how we planned to get around each day, the “Lodging” tab laid ... reality of my existence. It’s too easy for me to get caught up in my studies ... through buying coffee and learned how to say basic things in Italian, like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023