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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  be very proud of. But it's not something I'm going to bust out my ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with ... be good roommates, good mentors, good friends. We do not admit test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  week. most people answered saying they simply could not wait for CPW ... virtual events as part of CP*! one time, not a single prefrosh showed up :D ... hilarious because i am so not about greek life now lol[/caption] my year, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  impossible to type. i've tried not to mention you here too often, out of fear ... i not been cropped out. (sorry, that came out more bitter than i meant ... regret? not necessarily. just sad. i don't miss you. i don't need you, god

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... first panic! at the disco fanfiction, if not the first serious fanfic i ... impact on me when i was reading it, not only because it helped me realize

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  ," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to ... , especially, not for serious poems), some of them are.... interesting. I got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... experiences you listed earlier fit into the list of qualities. If you decide not ... sometimes but not usually in an admissions essay. If you’re feeling bold, add

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  , auditioning for a musical is basically my worst nightmare: not only can people ... course - not sure embarrassing myself in front of an audience is it, though ... YOU JULIE. I had a hard time justifying NOT auditioning, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Galaxy Well, I'm not your mother (thank you Captain Obvious) and you're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... . (I'm not kidding. Well, not entirely.) That being said, there are a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  one major, it's not as difficult -- you can pretty much plan on taking ... 't forget to add in a HASS each term, and try not to schedule more than one ... probably not advisable, and you should try to stick as close to 48 units per

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  , from my dad. but i'm not african american -- not really in any sense of ... with my friends, my diverse friend groups; i'm not the only black person, not the only mixed person. but i'm the only Me, and even though that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... night or by yourself, and if not, do you have people or roommates that you ... recommend finding new roommates. You're going to want space and not be able

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  good. The sun is starting to set, and Boston is strangely not showing its bipolar sleeves this evening. Not too hot, not too cold. There’s a nice wind ... in rage, and he’s not approaching me in the “Hey, you dropped this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  scheduled time. While MIT time helps, it’s not quite enough, so all of us have ... you think someone stole it. You do not cause issues, and everyone should ... . Blue Bikes You are not to be confused with the people that own a bike

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -packed sleeping schedule allows it!    To be or not to be… WIDE? That’s not ... most of the time. Not only have I not figured out the exact formula for ... secret to being WIDE is to not plan on it—but to see it, do it, taste it

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  , waiting for something but not really knowing what. After a bit I thud back ... right.—A year ago I moved to the US to study at MIT, and decided not to ... even when it's not the right thing. Building a taste for who you are and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  wanted, and I did not want it at all.  I bid the boy farewell and walked ... her lofty aspirations, and also that I did not begin dating that boy ... ’) live some blocks from the park, though they have not left their yard

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  myself – to be able to move forward. Not to mention, St. Petersburg in ... point of the above, but this was such an important and new experience. Not ... for who? It’s not like I’m trying to be a professional artist, I just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  version of myself has come to realize that this will not change anytime soon ... and powerful bad person. Believing that the “American dream,” was not a ... do not want to be this way, but I cannot help but be shaped by my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  last semester! Feels good to be identified not just as a child (as is ... declaring course 6. You're not going to change it, though. Convince a ... this I do not want to be your friend"]write a script[/annotation] to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want ... exists!). But in 2019, I totally did not keep it up and have now regressed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020