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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... . CJ: Mhm. Anna: It just feels like… I'm locked in to this choice, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... wrote How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs, it'd get an entry for the pun pagtanda "to get older" and pagtanda "remembrance". 11

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  good, because I was starving. I decided to get adventurous, so I bought ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the ... applied to attend West Point's summer training. I was placed in a company of

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... fact, I think I’m happier in all the metrics that I use to measure my own ... ’m just existing, with nothing going on, no thoughts in my head, nothing to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , to participate in the Discover Aerospace FPOP! In my overly simplified ... ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get ... page, but otherwise we can move onwards to the next acronym in the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  , an amazing pizza restaurant in Kendall Square that you should all go to ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my ... matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... girl in red?” Music taste is revealing. It gets you perceived. Just look ... discussion to work out our differences. While djent does have its roots in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... really relate to. .... then we all got here in the fall and haven't seen ... , and in some cases, on my floor. As freshmen, we aren't supposed to know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005