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  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life ... posted online) so that I'd have plenty of time to just roll the essay ... " because as much as you think you know about yourself, by the end of the

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

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  vengeance - spamming the owner of the guilty site - to acceptance - writing a ... of the hard drive, not freezing the entire thing. Poor Patrick the ... substantial amount of college essays, but I have a couple things to say on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  as students from different parts of the world who settled in the city ... choice. He did not disappoint. The first member of his family to attend college, Rindone starts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a ... one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... to all the hype I have heard from every other person on the face of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw ... don’t exist). But in all seriousness out of all of the colleges I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one ... second opinion from my friends… To my horror, none of them saw the glaring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... forget it again in the fall haze of week after week of classes. I love MIT, but during most of the semester, it’s a fight to floss my teeth every

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal ... in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... realize that the only thing I ate that day was a cup of vanilla greek yogurt

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places--the ... into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  This past weekend, the US underwent one of the biggest snowstorms of the decade (at least that’s what Yahoo news told me) impacting more than ... Cormick front lawn with 3 layers of pants and a shovel in hand, surveying the snow

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding ... .com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA&t=455s livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... side, that workload that was just the right pace? it's far ahead of you ... says it's an annoying part of the healing process. i just think my hands

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ? But she continues, and clarifies that she expects the rest of her ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So ... relative importance of the essay, there's no exact answer, but in my opinion, we care *a lot.* MIT doesn't assign each component of the application a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of ... essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the ... relationships with them. I even began developing the relationship of my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... - this was following approximately 3 hours of sleep the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... more. Mind you, the HASS-D lottery only involves a small portion of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006