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  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  explain yourself, either. There isn’t space or time for uncertainty. The college essay is yours. For more, see this writing advice from Chuck ... 50” college essays. I did that too much. As if comparing my work to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was ... due to both. Apart from aging me a bit, MIT has also done its best to ... , everything I learned here was new except for vectors. I dominated the first 3

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  kiddie things for fun but he didn't share those interests. Even though I ... fun time was playing Super Smash Bros until 5 am while stuffing my face ... of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... for my number too, I didn’t give it to him. We talked some more, laughed

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them ... them to campus for CPW that April. I saw their nerves when they first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... found too hard. Celeste allows you to play at a pace that's good for you ... best game I've played in months, and not just because it's the only game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  , who immediately wanted to write a script for it. They added narration ... compilation of footage of my dorm. My floor has played that song non-stop since ... history and the extent to which it played a role in major historical events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... cop, or a dog kennel owner. Growing up, I always liked math, but when I ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  excitement for what's really happening. Now, when I write, it feels emptier and ... up for hours and hours hating myself as I reread the same paragraphs ... for my 6.006 pset, I just started snapping back with angry, aggressive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... applying for the Match, check off that you are applying Early Action. You do ... use your QuestBridge application for that. In the Part 1, when you come

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  and rambunctious and wild and fun. My heart aches for those 3am nights ... Shakedown the dog. They'd host the loveliest sing alongs and study breaks for ... suspicion that if it were normal times, I'd still have a slight distaste for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors ... Professor Minicozzi often played the role of both a math professor and a ... : Dream of the Red Chamber (at Harvard). Dream of the Red Chamber, or 红楼梦

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... bar that Matt discovered which is so pro-red-sox that it's almost like ... York - you can find every single kind of person here, even Red Sox fans

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... cheese cubes and prepared for the feature presentation. Alright, so Kate ... pretty much already over for me. Bill actually turns out not to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Franklin High 'regular guy' bound for MIT by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian ... weights, play football and help his dad with construction. But he's brainy, too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  sentences with commas, always thinking of replacements for semicolons, etc. I ... replacement for the period, who knows :p in actuality, however, one of my default typing styles for as long as i can remember has been more like 'slim

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

   This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... applying for the Match, check off that you are applying Early Action. You do ... use your QuestBridge application for that. In the Part 1, when you come

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... out the door at 9:50, and made it to Astrophysics at 10:03. Our exam ... totally reasonable concern). So much for waking up well ahead of time. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  play. It sets the mood for the rest of the movie, though, because this ... colors – it all very much plays out like an 80’s MTV music video. It’s fun ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011