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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  haze of decision fatigue which has rendered me fully unable to formulate ... more than a year, or so. My episodes of extreme productivity placed me on ... end up sending me into full-blown jam sessions. I definitely won’t meet

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  finals studying) Stud Five (the one place you can count on finding me at ... lawn (study picnics for days)  Salonikis (oh my god someone make me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of ... at me go"]four[/annotation] people. i spaced them out since i knew back

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  prone to headaches and nausea (aka, me.) Yet, the quiet drone of the ... , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... the moment. Anyone who knows me knows I've been going through a Major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  to me was this, paraphrased: Baltimore is better than ever. You ... go through these cycles. Don't get me wrong; I am glad that I go to MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  -mac. Campus has always felt a little quieter to me during IAP. With dining halls ... head. A million dreams (and jet lag) keep me awake. I reminisce the early

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  .com to force me to write walls of text and lose all of my progress if I ... other bloggers reassure me that that is not the case. When I don't feel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth ... Lord of the Rings series (which took me through winter break to actually ... exam-cramming until midnight, but this fact really hit me only a week ago

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and ... application, due July 12th. If anything isn't clear, let me know in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  through his enthusiasm made me excited about everything from primers to dead ... biology, and even though I reviewed materials online, it made me a lot more ... .01) Physics was less of a pleasure because it came less naturally to me and the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my ... awesome and supportive ski coaches to show me the ropes – Ben ’07 and JC ’05 ... , just look at me shred. Rule #1: Look good. Rule #2: Ski Fast. Rule #3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my ... friends in Central Ohio. Calm upperclassmen who taught me how to pronounce

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  textbook? Watch videos? Take a course? Let me share with you how I started ... reminded me a lot of GameMaker. Also, my dad got me my first Arduino kit for ... advanced to me if I was reading this less than a year ago. But everyone

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  popcorn movies or quiet conversation. A friend once told me that my room ... -student. I anticipate that learning to be a non-student will make me a better

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  ’ve been spoiled by the vast array of options available to me in California ... , figures, and a conclusion were foreign to me. We were not given many ... slow down; if so, can you please become my life coach and tell me all of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme ... episodes... Let me know if you guys have questions about what it's like to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  their peers, which to me is indicative of a community I have never been a ... different it is being with people who 'get' you... It gives me time to focus

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  essay was easy—in fact, fulfilling—but true storytelling blocked me like ... forcing myself to learn to write longform. Poetry taught me how to capture

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014