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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reference, the undergraduate population of MIT is only 4,602, of which 1,120 were first-years. This means that there were nearly double the number of students than students in the Class of 2023. And throughout the weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... . I just want to reach out to the applicants who read descriptions of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy:) ~~~ Table of Contents The Beginnings The Planning Phase What I Made and

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

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  ?"). At the end of each lecture, I felt mentally drained from the anxiety that would come from letting my team down and also just the exhaustion of not understanding the past two hours of class. Office hours weren't any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  version of the class offered in the spring, 12.409! Return to Table of ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the ... .832: Underactuated Robotics (1) 9.13: The Human Brain (1) 24.211: Theory of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
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  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... ’s working. i am one of the co-directors for hssp, which is an educational

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of ... is not an individual or collective failure of the blogs or the bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  My Two Cents Thoughts before the big day

  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... acrylic paint and the bottom half is melted crayons. Grant F. ‘16 One of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015