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  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  ). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... live in, what clubs I wanted to join. Some things are going according to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... , where you're coming from, and what your loves are - in your own voice ... , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning ... . aaaaahhhh! i thought i had mostly made peace with the uncertainty, but all my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower ... , AP exams fees are reduced but not obliterated, and I’d love to meet the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  where they are now. In fact, I think I’m extremely privileged. I have ... are technically true but misleading. This is because most readers ... I mean the difference between where she started and where she is now

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  dream you wanted is now impossible. You are incredibly, incredibly valid ... ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share ... 15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  ?] 5. People in my major are [coders? problem-solvers? makers and ... who are majoring in something they didn't originally think they would. People tend to think Course 6 and Course 2 are big majors, Course 1 and 3

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... hopefully help you proceed and answer a big question: Where do we go from here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... pronunciations are the least of your worries right now. Another can of lingual ... penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  'm really sorry. Are you okay? HIM: Yeah. Sorry about that. ME: No no, I ... -the-last-exam guy who doesn't realize that his socks with sandals are not even ... rut where you've gone so terribly awry that you've gotten your Hoffmann

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  are alternate universes where similar but different versions of herself ... hand holds a golden integral sign. The two devotees are made of various ... ideas of Eastern spirituality, where life and death are deeply intertwined

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  ! Curious? There are two key steps to for this process to work. 1) Read all of ... --you didn’t know the crystal structure was elucidated in 2001? Then how are ... each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... followed was hilarious! Here are some excerpts. Looks like Drexel already had ... major delays to the site that you guys are. Also, I just did a measure of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  would fit well at that school. But I remember the good parts where I made ... high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... sick, and headed to my other extracurricular, where I proceeded to sit on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  inland waters **DISCLAIMER: if you are anyone other than Nora, attempting ... visualizing her incredible badassitude, this picture should help. Here are just ... people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... the MIT admissions site, and I began reading the blogs. Mollie made a ... . Lulu was one of my TAs - I almost swooned when I made the connection that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  are gay the gay heart is made of many fruit seeds i will have to admit ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  center of campus where many freshman GIRs are taught 26-100 ("twenty six ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  .nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... ” seminars (designed to show off the facilities) to semester-long courses where

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... saving time, right? It made sense, of course, until you tried to account for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007