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

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion~*~ might be gone. Is it passion if you are still in the middle of the

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

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  out today and the sky is full of clouds, it's dreary, all of the ... permeating everything, the dread of what is due next week. I met all sorts of ... take pictures of myself during CPW (go figure) so I stole some off of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  how much I love/hate the current series of events, or praise ... of the Senior House community: Dear [insert name here], I write on ... undermine our shared goals for the safety, health, and academic success of all

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school ... are wrong. One of the things about college is if you do not limit

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  into Giacomo's this time). One of my favorite aspects of the North End ... other news: (1) I had my first test of the semester this morning in 7 ... In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... over the US! It's pretty awesome that we can find a set of these around ... spoil the location of them all! If you're on campus, see if you can find

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free ... wrecked in quiz bowl practice. (Free dinner: achieved) The front slide of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold ... really beautiful. Anyway, I met CK at the very beginning of my freshman ... involved impromptu photoshoots. That same year I met the 3rd star of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  now. The one unfortunate part of August is packing and moving. Although all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was ... you want to paint and he always says yes. Then at the end of the year

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the ... of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... either pay the application fee of US$65 or obtain a fee waiver. Fee waivers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... some of the slight mishaps I've had to deal with stemming from my brain ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... . Spontaneity was essentially thrown out of the window. By the end of the work day ... being completely bored out of my mind. By July, even the television I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... , I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020