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  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  (rip sleep). As time went on and graduation passed by, my friends all ... . But my friends and I had the most fun hosting dinner parties in our ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges ... Programming) labs: I downloaded the message logs from six of my Facebook

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  from our friend Paula J. ‘14 when she moved in with friends who already ... fuse, which is probably a metaphor for addressing my misconceptions about ... unwavering path toward it. When I look toward my future I see a flat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  regard, and I acknowledge how radical my thinking might seem. Recently, I have been putting my radical thinking into practice by regularly ... admitted.  In my mind, it makes perfect sense.  It is, at least initially

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  particular girl. See, some of her friends were visiting my alma mater when a ... friends and these guys from my hall. I'm a nondrinker, and a much better ... things my way, and I definitely, DEFINITELY like to plan things out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  puzzles with three or so friends. i stared at my terminal trying to figure ... tiny, and selfish, in another way. here are all my friends, struggling ... hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  people and make event hopping friends. K: Also, if you're interested in ... friends that they met over CPW!! I wish I met more people over cpw :( N ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation as being totally smooth at all times), or if my professor had instead

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to ... used to be beyond my wildest dreams, and I'm glad that I got the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... of shenanigans with my friends. Fortunately, summer and my 9-5 work ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed ... coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things ... plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . My Chinese-American friends make jokes in Chinese and cook dumplings. Two of my friends talk to each other in Estonian; another two talk to ... what classes their taking, or where they live, or who their friends are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary ... spoken to about this (both current students and friends who were rejected ... to my success. Comments like “don’t worry, you’ll still succeed” and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a bang. i sang my last concert with the wellesley-mit toons. classes ended

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  ? [annotation note="Hello! Cami here. This is not at all true. But I love my mother so I'll let this one slide. Also hello!! I'll be communicating my thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  spot a lot of my friends walking between classes, and I have way less ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends ... . This one was also taught by some of my friends. Three of them, in fact

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , the first friend I told about my phone conversation said, “Oh, yeah, a ... Thursday afternoon, my final weekday shift, and my 3:30pm break slowly crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... of a leap as you might imagine). My PhD work combined proteomics with

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014