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  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  way I had a group of friends in high school. My most precious MIT ... This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  I hid behind my music stand. Three years later, I was in high school ... ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school jazz band in sixth grade, and then continued with the high school version

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and handed me a TI-84 calculator. (Good call on their end – I would not ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended ... amazing aesthetics: this one's very specific but man, I love that bathroom ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  threaded through the narrow keyholes of exactly how I wanted it to end up. If ... presents I’m glad I didn’t end up in. If I’m really fine with so many ... One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  into competitive programming through high school, and I fell in love with ... , so happy that I can experience something similar through front-end work ... . None of the things I learned were directly about front-end development

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

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high ... notebooks that I used in high school to learn French and Korean, the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  East Campus was ticking to an end, that I'm stuck in my room shorting ... parents and me in the US until my sophomore year of high school. I could go ... cw: death (after the horizontal line) I remember the moment that the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT ... in high school. Last week, I dropped a class for the first time--so I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blogs didn't exist, I would probably not be here. I graduated from High ... ended, but at some point I stopped obsessing so much over every word. Now ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa

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

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  familiarity. Cons: Safety and familiarity. I had spent all of high school ... something different, and I didn't know what to do. In the end, I figured it ... Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had

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

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

  

  this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use ... sidelines and watch. To this end, I participated in a medical interpretation ... stand on the sidelines - I want to make a difference. To this end, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... doesn't stop me from starting this entry explaining why I decided that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  documentary about an Arizona high school robotics team of undocumented Mexican ... , optimistically, and devastatingly. Yuliya blogged about it. I scrawled words on the flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... . When I was taking 6.01, there was one day where I was hosed beyond belief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011