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

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... passions. Highlight quirks. You can’t fit everything into a college essay, so ... plenty topics and stories you can choose. Most of them work. But there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  sitting there like, “lol Ben I haven’t got in yet so I can’t yet get ... something is. Whether that’s an opportunity to have parents that can afford an amazing high school so that you can get every bit of education you need to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like ... him I can hear him wailing with the most sad meows you can possibly ... can find him poking his head out of the door and watching what’s going

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT ... properly pronounce the rolled “rr”. I can’t for the life of me figure it out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  laptop. i can’t remember if i thanked him. the Monday after he died, i ... post. this is just me. i can try to say that i’m writing in remembrance ... selfish, really. i’m writing about what i know, and i don’t feel as if i can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  you can also use CopyTech to get papers bound such as for making a ... (-cough- google), I have discovered that you can also go to CopyTech for ... students can learn glassblowing over IAP. I've also passed by the MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... and a strong resolve to “must wake up early and do work so we can do ... we would for sure do it, seriously). “Can you wake me up early tomorrow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  week, Friday can also be the slowest and the longest day of all the ... with all our writing questions and needs. I can’t comment on any other CI ... which any movie of your choosing can be projected. Maseeh runs film

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  's productive to explicitly establish an environment where people can be direct ... accelerometer that can detect taps and free fall with some tweaked code, and away ... can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... jacket or sweater and perhaps even an umbrella. Weather can change quickly

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  isn’t something that MIT can give or take away, and it isn’t something ... , intelligent person you are, and, if you let yourself, you can continue to be ... English, and the two of us know Russian, but we still can't understand this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... how to look at things through different lenses so you can effectively arrive at a conclusion is one of the best skills you can have. In what

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... ), and being social (because I can’t live with being a shut-in) So that leaves 7.03 and/or Japanese as things that can go, if I wanted to keep all

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... table. My garbage can has two empty poster tubes awkwardly sticking out of it (each is about twice the height of the garbage can) - a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They ... the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a ... figuring out my routine here. Can I start with the basics? Sleeping, eating

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have ... back on the past four years, I can finally say I do. I can also cross ... the way I think about things.” But I’ve found something that can have

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  & Goyle at MIT. That can be really hard to realize for some students who have come from a high school where they were always A1 -- you can be ... for me, personally, to go to Reed). Since I'm a lecturer now, I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for CPW or ... addresses will be sent an email at the same time). Students can either send in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  : The ladies at the course on Friday. In case you can't tell, it was ... nationals, you can't know what your teammates are doing; the field is so large and so clumped together that all you can do is hope to hear snatches of

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  knowing where to park your car between safe periods. Most of the time, I can ... everybody is willing to have. Sometimes, I can't. I was originally planning ... can find a checkbook; if not, you're screwed. Although most parking

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010