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

  

  counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here ... perfect essay... for a price, of course. (Anywhere from a few bucks for ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered. This map originated from a poll taken last year by Casie Chen ‘17, who ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . This is purely from my POV as a recent grad school applicant. (I left ... different from each other. For instance, med school places a greater emphasis ... of it. So, for a while, I was a bit turned off by academia, despite

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at a point where I have limited energy for folks who want to challenge ... ’t remember having any dreams recently. I vaguely remember having a dream where ... people I know from the different parts of my life. Kind of like a crossover

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  olympiad medals. I spent a good portion of my very first paycheck from my ... conditions for comparisons. But now I’m a little more aware of people ... supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... yet there's a common kinship. I am awestruck by how many stories I can ... I'm writing this blog post's introduction from an Amtrak train

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  constantly. I can never seem to hold onto one for very long, though this is the ... , and a folder with random files I needed to cart from one place to ... melt a plat for me, I’ve got to bring my own. Charging Cable Nest - I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  a large one. I need to design a language that can grow. I need to plan ... make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As ... on Hydrant. I've gotten a lot of thanks for maintaining Hydrant, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they ... .  Loneliness is a type of grief, maybe. I can’t help but imagine you as little ... explain why I see you as a stranger. I’m sorry, I can’t help you. You might

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases ... where I built in dedicated time for healthier behaviors—like setting aside ... not need to rely on a desktop for hefty exports and renders. Once the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr account was actually a terrible idea. I don’t know if I can think of any

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• 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 ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable

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

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff. I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose ... extremely laborious but I learned a great deal from building it; plus I now

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... from Day 1 to attend talks and ask questions. Freshman year, I was a ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been ... .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges ... streaming capabilities and can be used to project presentations from a laptop

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Ballroom Dancing for the last two PEs - can I be a dancing pirate? =p THINGS ... -nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of ... lunches...then I took a long hiatus from them till late senior year, when I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011