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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  lower than the dorms, while maintaining the style of living with a bunch of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... before Obama’s executive action on immigration. Of the millions of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• 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

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... ’ve found a group of people who love doing the same thing you love doing, and

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

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

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education ... whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... culmination of an MIT career. They were given to only the perfect students, with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled ... extra cautious of all Malaysian babies in my way. As this week the spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... /her, and ultimately most of us usually like the person we have become over ... Farewell day, and the girl whom I loved for all these years had sort of ended

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... , and it wasn’t the end of the world. Learned that college Was in Fact ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other

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

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one ... feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the ... wouldn't result in a scar, you're just scratching at the surface of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... ’t completely true; some students only had two of the three. But, for some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy ... , unless they’re well-acquainted with the difficulties of this dish. It

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of MIT's Intro to EECS classes, with each of the Intro to EECS classes ... will be pretty long! It'll be an explanation of the class, my experiences

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  with the college essay. Ever walk into a shop with one of those glass cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors ... always get the same? College admission officers read upwards of tens of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... "self image", and notice that only ~31% of students think they're in the ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... female, incidentally, and through some quirk of the fashion industry have ... building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  place. A very special place with so much to offer; but also, the parts of ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023