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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were common during my undergraduate days and they were shocked. Yes, if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? "When I grow ... POLYMERS and CATS." Really. All I want to do is have my cat (and maybe ... have learned so much through my classes, but even more through the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  may or may not be quantifiable. If you're curious, my friend Rachel R ... couple friends and I conveniently watched this summer out of boredom ... -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt ... across the Bridge, my friend Emma S. '16 ran into me (she was actually ... Mango. I begged and begged my boyfriend to come get Red Mango with me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  at Umeqo. I went with my friend and old roommate Anji after tucking in ... was spotted with my camera and asked what I used to upload my photos. I ... the notebooks without some friendly recruiting (60% engaging material

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  I almost missed the Curiosity landing. My friend Daniel and I were ... 't forget my question, either. Last night, my friend and I spent three hours ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough ... early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... 't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Yes, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  days have given me a chance to look into the future. All of my friends are going away : ( Luckily, all of my friends are going away to do ... people. FRESHMAN YEAR IS OVER! 1/4 of my time here at MIT is officially

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... roof, and the beautiful helicopter shot. Using my Admissions Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  in any of the math clubs, and barely made any friends in my math ... summer proceeded, I got to meet some of my friends from the REU two years ... By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... cuttings that our friends gifted us a couple years ago I'm confident in my ... months, and 21 days"]minute.[/annotation] My blogger avatar hasn't changed

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that you are capable of getting it. One of my friends’ response to my ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the ... ended up going here, things after that would simply fall in place. My

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  are still lonely, as my friend group meets up for 8.01 and 18.02 and I ... assistance for my friends' psets, and I know for sure that I'm not their first ... 's embarrassing. I look at my friends and can identify their strengths relatively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... piece of writing we've ever seen. Over my ten years of working in ... decide what to write about, pretend a friend you hadn't spoken to in awhile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  up" myself. My friend held me tight; she wasn't even in that class, but ... have to live the rest of my life with the loss of my best friend. What ... out. I was almost sure that I wouldn't get into MIT, but my friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never really fulfilled it, relying on my friends and my boyfriend, as well as a nice Snackpass ambassadorship, for sustenance. Now, living on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  phone call from Max to my friend Costas would change my life. So my friend Costas calls me up on what I believe was a Friday night. My phone ... in that department. To my friends who read this -- a subset which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... Snively trying to come into my room, it's hilarious. I sometimes refer to the beads as my "Snively trap." Anonymous said: I'm sorry but I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  exciting classes i plan to take, the kindness of my friends, the colors ... stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i ... role-reversal, my parents were staunchly against my staying home: they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  's been a few years since I'd been to either. My friend and I made the trek ... my friends, explored more of the city, and spent two days in the alps ... Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019