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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  names and faces of students from so many different schools. It was so cool ... chose to do a Southeast-Asian-themed array of flavors, offering ube ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I ... and you'll see home:     Fun fact: all of the photos in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  problems. I was ashamed to live in Alabama throughout all of high school ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• 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.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the ... are for a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of the high schools that are known to send a lot of students to high level schools just don’t have a very

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  beginning of the school year, being away from all my friends and getting used ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  of my classmates come from private schools, and many buy prep books for ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... frantic night of keyboard-banging, friend-proofreading, and increasing panic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  the release of EA decisions. I seriously pondered skipping school that ... plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... (already a year out of high school) came over on Pi Day to hang out for a bit ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... are around three percent of people who are completely unable to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... from feelings of social isolation, of losing my friends in high school ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of ... of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009