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

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... piece of prose worthy of a magazine, or something that has been edited and edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  various rearrangements of the Institute furniture and our heavy, multiple ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put up celebrating the brilliant and diverse faculty, professors, and staff in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... 'm hoping the rest of my (and your) senior year pans out like that.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on ... go down this route! We've been there (way too many times), and it just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , right? Rumors and ‘leaks’ had been circulating all morning. We knew that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 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

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire each other ... , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... , address, and other factors that affect admissions, like whether they ... , it is much worse than unhelpful. It, and tools like it, actively harm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich.[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  US Army and the Massachusetts State Police and now runs his own private ... editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... school, and although I made good friends, I always felt a bit isolated ... being frosh (first sem is hard!) and a challenging math class. So I spent

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005