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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... out phrases or clauses just to save on words, but I did it and felt like ... that would add to your application file but wouldn't fit or would be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... to identify to what or to whom they are pledging. Figure 2. A ... in this example with Alex O. ’16 and Rachel R. ’16., or adopt a scowl

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We ... forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  . Supposedly, students that are accepted to MIT are “well-rounded.” In reality ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... after the A or B in the course; instead, I went for understanding the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... love for frogs to amphibians in general. My favorite amphibian today is ... 're taught to associate with the class. Most amphibians are born in the water

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  you don't see your question or if you have another one, feel free to email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in ... huge variety in what people wear to class and to what extent people care

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  feel like this sometimes too.) But don't fall victim to the TV or FB this ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... take care of yourself in a new environment without Mom and Dad around to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and proofread what Sam had sent me. The last task on my list was to add in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  characteristic to MIT. All the actors (aside from the one or two main characters in ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... Aeneas. We studied this opera in my music class, and I was excited to hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering ... an international intern before. A few nerves started to kick in, but I ... -discipline) or the chocolate bars in the “aliments sant

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... themselves to this sort of abuse without extreme levels of peer pressure or ... was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  were accepted either EA or deferred to regular and then accepted - in ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  every now and then, either to walk around or to sit in a touchdown space ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... or otherwise. Kate will be living in East Campus, although she is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... sustainable infrastructure for the US or the developing world. As I started to ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... , or diets to follow; no competitions looming to stress over. I even had ... had to squeeze in training in the mornings, and do so on my own, without

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  ’d have to draw, or if they saw their home in a new light, with sharper ... tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... that deviled egg (or maybe from the poor grammar in the caption?) And Ben

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... , was compact enough to fit horizontally in my backpack when folded up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  't being spent taking a minicourse, going to a country in Africa, or becoming ... you've discovered my secret: in addition to spending time at home with ... 's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007