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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  professors, whether it's in an academic context like office hours or running ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... I'm probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  fact, in a certain sense you could say that our job, as an admissions ... In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... other. It is, properly constituted, an environment which fosters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  . I’m so disappointed in myself — even though I know that for me, I ... ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past ... , it would be so easy for me to lose myself in the jadedness and void of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  games. My father owned an Internet Cafe when we lived in the Dominican ... , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition ... was an attempt at what one might call a “character study” for a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... seniors, thank you for all you have done in the past four years to make MIT ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast ... in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed ... ; garlic in pan cut chicken in small pieces cook for 5-10 minutes add

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for ... fishing for an interesting bit of information that might make a good story ... also represented the discovery of a formula for success in the admissions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... disease") and Takeshi Makino of the Safety Detective Agency in Osaka ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... for mirchi, an bollywood/fusion dance group who performed at south asian

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... WORTHY!" (honestly, it's hard for me to keep those feelings in check

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... criteria, everyone here is an excellent student. A lower bar isn't set for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  walkouts scheduled for March and April. In response, some high schools have ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... "demands of the entire polity for an increasingly literate society, an

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  out of touch for periods. I think the main shift in mindset that has ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... and lashed out in an unforgiving sucker punch. The weekend I was going ... your max rep in an explosive, short-lived fury. Writing turns from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  in the best light possible for competitive college admissions. So as ... .libretexts.org Description: An open source library of detailed explanations for chemistry topics. Sort of like Wikipedia, but for Chemistry. Great for getting an

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  an hour, my roommates and I went home, and for the first time in my ... same time, in many ways, it is the sign I am looking for when I feel like ... waiting at the MGH station around 5:00 PM, waiting for the train to come in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020