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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... guns for generic spells that did 1 HP each, maybe 2 HP if you had an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  , for an hour. The result: No, there was no mold in the AC. The room ... for a large part of the day, but the running monologue in my head: "15 ... . 1. Sara asked, if you're not initially selected for an rba dorm but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  in an unfamiliar environment will be better for me. I’d be getting a ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I realized I had just lost my glasses in the fall. It's okay, I found them, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot—in ... . Deal with being in an abusive relationship with a manipulative partner

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  that person for you in some small capacity over the Internet. I was able ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... reason is just because the sentence is conveying a narrative in an everyday ... probably exhorted to use an engaging opening sentence in your essay, since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , code, and launch an idea for an app. We design our own problem statement ... a PM Coach. In the mornings, we have an hour and a half engineering ... here, at least not blatantly. I didn't have an interest in working on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... authorized campus access at an unmarked service door at the basement level of our building; he ushered me in and we exchanged an awkward hello after

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... have an interest in you and actually put in most of the initial effort in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... born and nominated for an Oscar. An entire person came into the world and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... Friday. I had an icky week. I had four exams in four days, one of which ... in an application, whether it's through teacher recommendations or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  done with classes, which left me in an uncertain state for the future ... jonesing for a patriotic day in a country that naturally didn’t bat an eye ... bags and moving for grad school in California. It’s an exciting time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Featured 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 ... "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . Meet your high school friends over break. Oh, and brace yourself for an ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It ... resources, remember: you paid for it in your tuition, so might as well make

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  ="70805" /] I'm reminded of an essay, Hackers and Painters. In it, Graham compares ... general, is like painting. But in an even narrower sense, front ... everything I like? No. Maybe an author of math textbooks might've been better

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : We sent Kevin our plan, and he had some advice for us. Start earlier in ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020