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• 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  back to my airport hotel in the interest of getting out early because of ... 'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• 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 / 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 / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... from backstage, we don’t actually get to watch the show. In fact, with ... in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... to learn how to read and engage younger children in reading. You can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• 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 / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of ... …”, “Breakthrough in…”, MIT is discovery, invention, and innovation. We are lucky to be in a place that enables us to pioneer the next novelty, but amidst

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 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 / 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 / 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 / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  got to spend a semester with since she studied abroad in my freshman ... frosh, taking us out for ice cream or staying up until 3 in the morning to ... , only leaving to sit in my pod lounge with my three other podmates, rather

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021