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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  find the second sentence to be a lot more "down-to-earth." The simple ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’s been months now without a new post. Where to begin again? But here is ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  or control theory prior to taking the class, but 6.832 helped me find a ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... exploring until you find something meaningful to you. And finally… Achieve ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  a person—and to find out that they are depressed—when I have been ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  a place where the surface isn't quite as close as you'd like it to be ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• 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…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy, really good dessert place), which would be a

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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... ’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That ...   I really don’ t know where to start with these guys. I’m truly blessed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday ... to campus I noticed that it was a little more difficult this morning

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was ... million things you can’t control. You can’t control where you went to high ... can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... ratio approaches infinity, I consider it a success. Sidequest 10: Find

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... . But somewhere in there, you're going to have this isolated moment where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... deciding to let graduation happen without me and start a company based off of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... builds character. 37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn ... your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to ... called Whova and I basically got to set up a little virtual 'booth' where ... to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020