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

  

  to his craft. This is how you write a fabulous college essay. "What ... if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... learning how you write a blog entry." That too. But it has double meaning (oh

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  ? Growing up is a beautiful thing, ain't it? Moving was bittersweet, and one ... few new ones. A dinner party to celebrate how far we'd all come since ... 're not all that grown up yet, and because this is indeed a throwback to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  duration of CPW, each pre-frosh is paired with a volunteer student host, who ... ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of ... do your own thing. Yes, I know I just said your host is a wonderful

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... 's fence" Chesterton, once wrote that If a thing is worth doing, it is worth ... importance of Just Sharing until much, much later. Receiving critique is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your ... is your target's target, so if A was hunting B and B was hunting C, and A kills B, then B is out of the game and A now hunts C. this brings

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  go shopping on Broadway. New Haven is very much a college town ... ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I ... yourself deeply depressed. "But how about both?" Conclusions? Sure, with a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  ?" Sometimes they didn't know the difference, which is a tragedy that deserves ... and I give you my thoughts as a parent. There is only one coin. There ... 's?" I reply "Why do you put so much emphasis on HYPSM?" When a parent says

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  realize now that knowing how to explain why one's cause is worth supporting ... who would otherwise never have met*. *This is a story that could have ... ANY IDEA HOW MUCH TIME WE SPENT BUILDING THAT ROBOT? No? Let me tell you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look like on paper. Each little essay is a snapshot of you as a person instead

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  especially, the motto is, "work hard, play hard." How much of each is enough ... email. It's Wednesday now. On my floor is a suitcase containing a suit ... that it favors the latter sort of lifestyle because it is a coming

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  case, reviews (as you will see...), etc. Apparently, there is a ... semester, is no doubt a requisite to Course 4. While I love having my little home away from home away from home, it is pretty isolating in a way. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  ester, is not a productive approach. Here's what we French House ... form of a TA or professor is not available: we wander through the living ... inevitably reach for a whiteboard marker, which is why I've never seen a blank

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was ... written media that has best described ec culture as a whole is Danny’s blog. if you want a huge collection of stories, this website is also good

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking ... group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly ... out okay. i think the real conflict here is that i’ve spent much of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol

  

  [annotation note="The reason we have to take an entrance exam is because we do not have the prerequisite, which is understandable, but alas ... , with the assistance of a great memey friend"]meme creds[/annotation]

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 8, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  reasons why I enjoy ROTC so much is that there are so many opportunities ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... around a rifle (even if it has been decommissioned) is just flat

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... -action is in our name, and as we weren't on campus, there wasn't much we could ... undergrad. As a hall chair, everything I do for Floorpi is cast in this light

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021