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  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... November, and I'm reminiscing about my own early action application. Here's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  , so I stayed inside. Then sun came out so my friend Gabi N. '22 and I took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the ... ) purchase their residents breakfast and dinner during Finals Week. So instead

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked and loved to do were likeable enough, whether I was even an interesting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower, lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time ... some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better - and they do listen. For instance, some students mentioned there weren

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere on campus – and a few places off campus – the money is deducted from

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find ... with tough academic classes, sports, extracurricular activities, and ... the couch and watch Gossip Girl, Degreassi, and OchoCinco: The Ultimate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an ... boat; let's spend the dorm's money and take a trip out into the middle of nowhere!" And everybody else was all "Woohoo! Nowhere!" And so, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... that I was making clothing out of duct tape and decided to go all out. I ... everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... bring back 6.08"]Joe Steinmeyer[/annotation] teaches it, and he’s a great ... and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio manual. I took the test, got my license, and joined a local [annotation ... met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  MIT's signs and posters carry diverse [annotation note='You might be ... distnction doesn’t matter here. And third, xkcd 1475.']fonts ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  rink, a track, and a basketball court; over 4000 students attend. It's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events, and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes ... a planner (I jot it down and never open the planner again), but mainly due to apathy and laziness. I've realized that the philosophy which

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022