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  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7 ... our instincts and working with our breath. In rifle this IAP, I learned

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... , I suppose, is MIT. For where two or three are gathered in my name ... in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... remembering but in knowing constant as the bleak walls, the bleak windows where ... I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was ... all those excellent chart-formatting skills I learned in 10.26: Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  [/annotation] [annotation note="I think this is the class I heard about where they brought in ... classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... : Class. CLASS. Where - what - HOW DID THAT JUST HAPPEN 11:47 AM: Hop in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  know where the building numbers are, you can navigate your way around MIT ... , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  human. Even on this blog, where I can say exactly and precisely I want, I ... their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I ... . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... temp. 9:45 AM. I am putting the DNAs back in my box when I discover that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... in places where they will be appreciated, particularly if they have the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... 't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  probably included. During my own preview weekend, I went to an event where ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection ... parts of them). Pretty intense eh? Biochemistry labs Where I spent

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014