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

  

  that I addressed the question?" Throughout your years of schooling, the ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... colleges - not such a good idea. it's tiring, it costs a ridiculous sum of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  classes and I’ve done professional graphic design work which I’m proud of ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... . Anxiety is an overwhelming flow of feelings within and around oneself. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  it’ll consume me. one of my elementary school teachers died recently ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... school. Oh middle school. I convinced myself that my feeling of admiration ... in queer culture. High school was better. The cycle of tricking myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  felt like the beginning of the school year, oddly enough. There were cars ... was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  in my high school, being smart was valued, and lots of people hated ... I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT, especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  out of my comfort zone. Navigating unknown territory – be it a school ... :00-14:00 had an abundance of edits during the school day Weekdays 9 ...  what I really got out of all of the confusion. High school is what you make of it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... -affiliated individuals.  During her senior year of high school, AudreyRose, who lives in ... , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020