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  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  cases with all the toppings laid out in a symphony of delicious colors ... thesis sentence, proceed into the body with topic sentences for each ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  the gridwork of Tucson. There’s a Target with an “Apply now!” sign, and ... minivan with a rounded hood. Its secret: if you fold the backseats down ... victory, three a cause for celebration. So on a day with no driving, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me ... exhibits, sit in on a sea turtle surgery, and play with the octopus. The ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  chocolate mousse is covered in a chocolate glaze, topped with a vanilla tuile ... , he bonds with Lee and sees for himself all the damage and death the ... roll is covered in a mirror glaze and topped with a cherry and some

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... ,” Faneuil Hall (with Quincy Market), Downtown Boston’s prime location for a ... underpants (with a special butt cape) riding a unicycle and playing bagpipes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... your advisor and sign off on the classes you'll be taking for the ... long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  DINNER??), I wouldn’t have met some good friends. And just for fun, I dug ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  , admission is free for MIT students -- so when we found out that they held ... is working for Aurora Flight Sciences, an aerospace company with a ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... complaining and hunting down unhealthy free food. I can deal with it." And then ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself ... tradition of Random Hall. Come play them with us through the night! 22 ... ! Also suitable for badass jewelry. 20:47 - 22:17 Storytime with Cruft

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy ... finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  project, a tough debate round, or interactions with an overly ... play with categorization, text alignment, fonts, and colors. Figure 3 ... ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus ... than it had for me... And I could tell they were having fun, too. Those ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... my free time hanging out with my curly-haired husband -- we like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... interspersed with modern buildings like the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center, with its huge glass atrium, and the famous contemporary Simmons Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  play 3 games in one week, reuniting with opponents that we had already played (and beat) previously during the regular season. Here are the ... we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  of. Your summers are for you, and you can do whatever you want with ... might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019