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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... acceptance letters anyway). I didn't believe in the "one size fit all" approach ... often, I notice students get caught in a rut when they're writing the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle ... the ticket they would say the color. I along with my friend Karen had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... , I have a fairly high success rate in terms of the amount of second

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  together, and would arrive later that night. I showed Charles, who was in ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... -jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... notion that I would study computer science. Maybe I would even double major, if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  planning the longest in the process. But, over the next few weeks, I would ... ’s rough buddy’ and what bender I would be, I caved. I started watching the ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] a duck i found in the esp office[/caption] Part 1: Hi, are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East ... take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... sitting away on my old computer, but I started uploading a few on YouTube in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  person-who-is-successful-in-a-direction-you-would-like-to-be. Endear ... something I brought up in class made him happy. It was nice and existence ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... (you were always on time, weren't you?)(That's okay, I wasn't). In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... person you would fall in love with. 25) Work on friendships as much as you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international student orientation, I (along with all the other internationals) ate in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020