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  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... friend and classmate? Don't invent a character. Describe yourself. (from ... 50” college essays. I did that too much. As if comparing my work to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the ... every nerd club at my school, but I was still a stupid teen. Don’t be a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  concentrating in Comparative Media Studies, but some of my friends have ... Hi guys! My name is Quynh, and like Connie, I’m a crusty old senior ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  thank all of my friends who came to the competition. I could not have done ... final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play ... my first and last name.) Melotaur has brought me much happiness and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  subsequently answer, "the people" is, "the people whom I consider my friends or ... upperclassmen who just talk to me about anything, ask about my day, are friendly ... discussing interests. I'll be talking to my friends and the next thing I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents ... started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  from HMMT. My other friends from CMU who were helping with CMIMC were ... , seeing my friends from CMU, getting to talk to them, thinking about whether ... the cool things about helping run HMMT is the staff exchanges. My first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... , is that all of my friends have cool internships when I'm struggling to ... Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  food. Location: Building 26 12.28 - 12.55 pm: my friend from ... i really loved joon's everyday post, so here is my own unnecessarily detailed day! watch as i stumble my way through like sixteen hours without

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  the family and overall it'll just be a lovely time. My friend group ... semester. Aiden (my best friend!) and Aidan (my pseudo older brother!) will ... ? Recruitment? Frankly I'm excited to see my friends again. A lot of Student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  can confirm that my family and friends did notice when they got ... ="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  for the MIT grad program in physics? My friend Fadam '07 says that yes ... Shiny new computer Since my grad program gives a $1000 "educational ... . I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  of pi, and the highest score was my friend Nina O., ‘27 with ... . One of my friends said it was a very Kentucky thing to say.  I thought ... was finally warm, when I saw my fellow Kentucky friend, Kaleb T. ‘27

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  massive group meals! My friends and I are actually planning to do a big ... , Friday, and Sunday! So, on one Sunday in October, eight or so of my friends ... . Shush. At home my family will be working their way through Thanksgiving

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  This year I have been helping my little cousin Danielle* with her ... Wayne now, but I’m old-skool. I like the classic telephone ring on my ... , I’m just thinking about my parents and my brother….They’ve got a whole

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  months in the fall of 2020, I lived with my friend Paige L. (Harvard ‘23 ... the Charles by renting a kayak with my friend Zion H. ‘23. There’s no ... following for so long. I had so much fun competing and seeing my friends at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  Chris, I hope you are doing well during this challenging time. My name is ... computing. You might have seen me on MIT's home page earlier talking about my ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  compared to Denver’s, since the T trains come so frequently. My friend ... kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  opportunities MIT churns out every year to send my friends everywhere from DC ... replacing a block of my calendar with a trip to Istanbul, and didn't feel 100 ... travel across the world—my head nearly exploded trying to process that idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce ... . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... your MIT-loving friends shared this with you...*hint, hint* MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013