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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  , they developed some digital media literacy – what I would argue is the ... helping out with and would have LOVED to take if I was unfamiliar with ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

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

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... ! Here's more of your questions: Nihar queried: I was wondering how and ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  person-who-is-successful-in-a-direction-you-would-like-to-be. Endear ... something I brought up in class made him happy. It was nice and existence ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... , I have a fairly high success rate in terms of the amount of second

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... the language). I’m getting interested in studying how social ... notion that I would study computer science. Maybe I would even double major

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in ... are people in Bexley too. Oh, I think it was about their “student ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... sitting away on my old computer, but I started uploading a few on YouTube in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  together, and would arrive later that night. I showed Charles, who was in ... to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  anyone else to. Sometimes it is helpful to stop and think, “How would I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... would highly recommend reading it! 9. How it feels to teach a class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... person you would fall in love with. 25) Work on friendships as much as you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015