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  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  the summer), but I'm not sure where I could find it... Sean said: So..can ... going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... thought of where I would be if I had chosen the fork in the road marked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... . part of this was because i was not walking in the best way, for several ... important. straight bottom of the foot is not good. you can see in the next

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  graph’s title—in this case, a single word—can affect how people report its ... refers to where people focus when viewing an object; Zoya’s work in this ... beach for the first time! Hopefully, if I keep doing good research, I can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing fine. I was organized, turning things in on time, attending most of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... in MIT, lies about MIT in and unsubscribe. I think this is partly ... known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I ... event, and "How Many Feet Can You Eat" Subway eating event.  But I still

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... (those logs in there are actually trees, and I'm standing a good way back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  least you can say that it's different." Myself? Well, I think the Stata ... inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  yellow.) I read this in the middle of my graduate school apps, a time where ... important to me? I feel this very strongly in this COVID semester, where it ... confident in what I want out of life? I don’t know. But all I can do is keep

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... classically mortifying high-school-cafeteria-where-on-earth-do-I-sit dilemma

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... amount of time to classes every moment where I could have fun was a nice ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... Facebook in like, the last month, there's this thing going on where you write

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in ... *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... can explain why. I have this very specific picture in my mind. I ... groups are suddenly smaller. It wouldn’t be like MIT, where I live in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ="IAP = Independent Activities Period. In January, MIT has a brief J-term where you can ... sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007