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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  all the important insults they thought we needed to know. But let's see ... talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find ... ," which I think is a much better expression. Now I can just switch to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic ... . Darryl and Marvin '10 are working on a project that uses pedal power to generate electricity through an alternator, to be used to charge a cell phone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... sound trite, but i genuinely mean it. i think that i have a tendency to ... from a concert he went to in the 2000s talking about birding with my pi

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... best friends and I had a pact: go to Stanford. We famously donned

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago ... test an individual's ability to recall important information, remain ... . Good thing they train us... I also get to start researching! After a two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or ... briefly summarize a great deal of careful research:   our ability to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... ’ve decided to remedy that in as overzealous a fashion as possible. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... be a perfect way to clean out my wardrobe, as well as actually ... into a quilt. This came out to twenty eight shirts, and I still kept

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... algorithm understand taste Comments from the blogger: i listened to a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  : Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... importantly, you’ll find a little community of students with similar backgrounds ... excitement gave way to something else, a restlessness I couldn’t really name. I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  ://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language ... example, here's an opening to a typical first draft: I am applying to the ... challenged — all undergrads going on to a grad program will be challenged, no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the ... out loud to my parents, they'd say "I think we've done a pretty good job ... ass)."][/annotation] My line at the time was, I don't mind a walk to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  (most importantly) step away from my screens. As a way to bookmark these ... at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... my laptop to reveal a queue of hundreds of applications. It’s about

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel—to ... Ethiopia to the United States a few years before I was born, so their entire ... bags (I think I was still young enough to share a suitcase with Raiye

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a ... start?” I’ve been through it. It doesn’t have to be a hair pulling mess

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... related. CPW just happens to be a good time to get a head start on getting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on ... . BUT YOU JUST WANT ADVICE ON HOW TO WRITE A WINNING EARLY ACTION ... necessary to use protection... ...so I put on a pair of lab goggles

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006