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  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... the well-practiced, the shouts of people reached my ears. “Come and see ... look at one of them— I have no idea what happened next. The world

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... schedule, and you never really are able to stay on top of everything. The

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the ... "]electrical engineer of the hardware variety.[/annotation]  In my era, MIT had ... breaking off to become the new College of Computing, my how things have

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... last class to my first extracurricular activity of the day, rushed back ... , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once ... leagues based on their level of participation that week. The app awards

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as ... , but don’t overplan. CPW was one of the most memorable weekends of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion~*~ might be gone. Is it passion if you are still in the middle of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... calc) with me one time my freshman year. The only thing she got out of it ... of the magnificent shopping opportunities in Boston -- the Pru, Newbury

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... community college in which we literally took turns snoring away in the back of ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try ... thinking of the decent proportion of the 200-something 6.005 students I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And because of the MISTI program, also awesome. Hokay, so I took 550 pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... of reading and a lot of internet. I read the MIT website, I read the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  affected by one of the hurricanes or by the earthquake in south Asia, I wish ... list of activities but an explanation to the activities listed on the ... leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal ... . My friend (and one of my favorite people) Caroline M. '18 wrote the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  my last semester blogpost that this class was the bane of my existence ... test with Helena, one of the Spanish department faculty, and she said I ... 'm really grateful for this change of pace compared to the very fast and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school ... are wrong. One of the things about college is if you do not limit

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  limited by the lack of arts it offered. We asked our guidance counselor if ... on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... from the sea of words below, but neither of our applications included

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018