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  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  Competition"]FRC,[/annotation] and I was interested in local politics. All these ... challenges" really scared me at first. I had not at that point in my life ... . Even in the last essay about oboe reeds, I feel like I sort of subverted

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  excitement in Boston now is like nothing I've felt before anywhere else. Yet another advantage of living in this great city. And what would a ... : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who read the blogs. Thinking of all the things I would say post-decision time ... feel like I'm in that situation, I keep running. I tell myself it's all

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  holding dinner parties for my friends in the box I call home! With the knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my ... First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  points still, but at least I don’t have to worry about swimming. I would’ve failed the swim test in front of an awkward crowd. Then I’d delay it until ... the MIT team. According to the trainers, it looked like I would faint

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  circumstances in this blog post would be particularly different if I were at any ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... land in the Charles River. I carefully planned my route along the dock so

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... -Entry went on a road trip northward to Montreal. Beforehand, I thought it would ... quickly-edited montage of everything I filmed, including little bits in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  no way I would ever join a fraternity. Pretty much the only images that ... life would be like had I not given the Greek community here a chance to ... Chair of the Interfraternity Council, asked if I wouldn't mind sharing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway ... Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  'You kill yourself,' so I'll just quote it in the annotations: 'YOU KILL ... .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  't, however, what I would call 'pretty uneventful.' Before I begin my little ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  something which would be used in my work as an engineer. 1.00 (Introduction ... from other majors who come and take the class. I know people in courses 2 ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  super-fun, but I would never characterize myself as a good, or even ... are usually in use when I pass by. Mens et manus in corpore sano and ... , inviting me to their interview weekend. So I guess that would be four all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... . I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it ... apps as I am, that's wonderful. I have to ask, though... (despite not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel ... . Unfortunately, there was a car parked in it, and removing it would require that we

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I ... I don't even want to talk about in public, despite the fact that I ... prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but ... should) have been spent doing homework and studying, but in reality, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... administration's view on it? etc." I would characterize MIT overall as being a very ... , which I'm proud to be able to say was the first state in the Union to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005