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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at ... the meaning of courage"), and lame witty comments at all cost, although

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Venus of Urbino, lounging naked women that Titian would draw staring at ... at least five copies of Machiavelli’s The Prince -- all in Italian. It ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  won’t feel the pain Nine. We were informed of our new rooms on Thursday ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , someone took notice of Milk and stared at his expiration date—October 20 ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  new random obstacles along the way, like the herd of wandering cows and ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... ="51785" /] ...a picture of my friends guest-hosting my final in-person show at WMBR ... need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... extracurriculars at difficulty levels 95, 70, and 65 out of 100 difficulty points ... . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... at the end of the day. We're so cool that we were not only one of the ... at a corner of the table, not distrubed by the lack of attention

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions ... pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... 'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  classes, which is boothing. Boothing consists of smiling at people when ... the sound of a wake-up phone call. I checked in at the Bush Room and ... came to play the game at least once, and of those, three people played it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... even in my final semester at MIT, I discovered new friends and new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... automatic slideshow at the bottom that shows off pictures of our alarm clock ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015