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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... , children, come to Muti for school. Many will live with relatives or rent

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just ... present for all the ups and downs of an athlete’s journey. Thanks to the ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include ... broke the other day, and I went down to Wheelworks and hung out for 45 ... . Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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…

  

  challenges. So when my turn came to introduce myself and share my reasons for ... work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I ... fulfilling internship at a company I never expected to work for: Amazon, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... ? You don't want your art to be that person. Go for it.” This applies not ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... fall full of travel, I came back to MIT for a master's, but it didn't sit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... unquestionable ability to thrive at MIT—lasted for maybe six weeks. Then, I hit the ... except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  unexpectedly rainy shoots, to Elton John for writing the song that got me through ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... rain to shoot even when I had nothing to offer but my company, and for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about ... afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don't take it for granted ... time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to ... , for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than ... senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave ... work!” I thought it was silly for her neighbor to be so despondent and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015