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  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  thinking about how I would approach these essays. Although nothing here is ... narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... which department you put down on that blank (I don't know how many emails

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  feel and create my own freedom in how I change." Well, somehow I ...   In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... deportation and legal work permits, I still live in fear that my parents will be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... 's how I've felt, though: clunky, with a jumble of thoughts and fears and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the ... crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... than just dorms in a hall, and also I totally just ruined the joke by ... ? Really, there's no use in me talking about how great these people are - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  they wish the HASS requirements would just disappear, but the lesson I ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  .013 (General Biology), a class with at least 300 people in it, where I would not ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... people. I felt like a failure! In my mind I had sunk to the lowest point

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department ... -percent-Asian high school would express a similar sentiment. I know that I have close

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are ... . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... : Learn the building numbers. I would still consider this one incomplete ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... would be fierce. Emotional attachment aside, how is the dorm physically

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  ultimately guarantee admission. How would I know? Actually Stu and Matt and ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... really, really flattered, the entry I wish everyone would read is More Than

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  anything in my life right now, what would i change? i don’t know. i don ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... the sting felt tangible in a way I hadn’t felt in a while. “Why don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011