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  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... been edited to be something other than his or her true voice. Encourage ... telling you to shut your parents or counselors out of the process entirely

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  neurons in the striatum -- we know it's important, but we don't know how or why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... cheerleading stories from the olden days, throw Lulu up in the air (pics or it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  materials and doubling in courses 8 and 3, or wanting to become a filmmaker ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... due to excitement or awkwardness. When I’m really mad, however, I swear ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ’d have to describe it in a more roundabout way, or simply not at all. The ... simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... , but because in their worlds, they never have to practice that ability

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... ...7. (or 9, or 10B)" HIM: "What do you want to do after you graduate ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in ... recover. Usually anomalies are constrained to two or three “Hell Weeks” per semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... forgot to turn in until I was almost back in my room. That meant I had to ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

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

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... walk in, even if only for an hour or so. My least favorite part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later! 21W.755 This past weekend, my homework assignment was to eavesdrop (or ... ) and so I’m glad that I’m in this class, both because I really wanted to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  ,[/annotation] so I decided to perform anyway.  The thermocline in a lake or ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... note="while academics in the natural sciences tend to submit papers to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as ... room and found my bed to be covered in playing cards, inside and out

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014