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  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  down, some of them still seem like dead ends, cross them out and keep on ... with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in charge of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... my horizons and get out of my comfort zone. Over the past three years at MIT, I chased all sorts of side adventures, determined to make the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the ... out how much of our name to capitalize. We’re digging into market research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It's been really fun so far, exploring all of Tokyo's neighborhoods - peering

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  cross-cultural collaboration and the introduction of the concept of ... fellow [annotation note="gonna represent that 10% of the student body ... the world regardless of their financial situation. MIT is need

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  crew of astronauts on the ISS). maybe i'll write a post about it in a ...  Pickpocket which i saw as part of an urban planning film series that one of my ... people ask stuff like "what kind of movies do you watch" or "what kind of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  Have you ever dreamed of visiting Europe? Ever checked your financial ... of Spain and France? Ever heard of Billy Joel? Ever known of Prague as ... contain a mind-numbing, overbearing amount of detail and documentation? If

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP ... anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... of them: one is people and another is creative work, like art or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  musical wing of Next House, and every semester, we put up an extensive list of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We had a lot of events listed this semester—[annotation note="more about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  ? As Purple Team explained, a 3.5 degrees celsius rise in temperature of ... could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... children. Elika, an artistic, aesthetic, foldable coffee table made of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... . Snively said: The beads are so confusing!!! Ha! I wish I had a good video of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I'm really excited to be ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  subcommunities we've built are functioning well, so fingers crossed for the rest of ... Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This was a sample size of 20, and master's aren't required by any means, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you ... college admissions blogs. Someone who didn't make use of her MIT education

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  complete the first step. Take driver's ed, that's fine -- it's a rite of ... a bunch of scary car crash videos. This will heighten your anxiety and ... curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024