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  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In ... essays are not advice, or even guidelines. I can only tell you what I did ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... . Not really, but yeah, I'm getting paid. BUT in my defense, I blogged all ... -than-perfect SAT scores aren't in that category. Karen answered this pretty well: "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  esoteric diagrams, numbers, and concepts than I can keep track. Exams are ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as ... sucks when instead I could've be basking in sun taking naps on the quad in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... important (such as the Mystery Hunt). Current music: Alice In Chains, "I Stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms ... when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  Like Bellamy’s young hero, I too am back in Boston. Except its been about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... stuff is as neat as I do, and want more,you are in luck! As part of the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... time in MIT I had completed an exam with several minutes to spare. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... tools that will be essential in building a successful startup, and I have ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  me. I started watching it with my high school boyfriend in junior year ... ago. I sat in bed and bingewatched seasons 6 through 10, leading us to here. To now! In those ten seasons, the show matures, where you can see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  neurobiological sensory wiring, which you can't alter by canceling flights. I rest ... gospel of SkyMall. Until then, I plan to start a business in manufacturing ... order of business: I can haz boarding pass?

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  , you can major in anything you want. I think it would be very unfortunate ... situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of ... schools which can expand in all directions. We're already reaching a point

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  MIT's study abroad program in Japan. "I've always been interested in ... said. "A scientist using one sample at a time in a petri dish can take ... knows it will be an adjustment. "Now, I'm a big fish in a small pond," he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense ... team owns and controls, but it's too complex and i can't really ... , something i never thought i would do in week one. i still ask steven at least

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom pointed this out last night, and unless I'm missing something, I agree with ... it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to ... rarely find in "real" life, except maybe in start-ups. And in a sense, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... my knowledge in general? Should I order coffee or tea? In the end

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  on this one, we can always point back to “this is why I believe in this ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... me: I joined Pixar in 2009. Like I said I’m from Chelmsford; I went to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’re supposed to be working, we’re doing the work. I can figure it out… I think ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020