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  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... 've liked to, so that’s what we are writing this blog to do! We remember ... 've mentioned in a couple blogs already). Describing this relationship is on our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... go, this pic has lots of people in it. From left to right, we have Milo ... according to him this failed), watches them in the background. And now

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  paper with the intent that they were to be sent to colleges. Yet, in the ... biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below ... ! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18 ... Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... percentage of free time in my day, I do attempt to read my yearly book quota ... 100 list' did a lot more for my motivation to read. In the end, though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  life and work on this blog. 15/01/2025 2:22 in my attempts to "fix my ... Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big ... discovered in the last couple days in large online databases, and try to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  opportunities will land on your doorstep, or your inbox in this case, so pro tip ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... abroad to teach a STEM subject usually in their discipline. What’s cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... , naturally, I thought that I ~had~ to be an extrovert in order to be successful

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  quickly. We met and the next thing I know I'm handing in a sheet of paper ... admissions blog posts and my other writings. I want to be able to apply my ... like a writing major from MIT in addition to my 3A would allow me to do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason ... crawling and bruised, limbs hanging off in stray directions, back to my dorm ... in America right now but I'd love to go to MIT and it just seems like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought ... stuff. In August, I went on a work trip to DC for my UROP at Veterans

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to ... to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  was the provider? Where did they check their e-mail? Bloggers blogged ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light ... several peoples' minds: Blogging. Whenever I get a brilliant idea and just

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public ... comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and ... arbitrary white flags to indicate your surrender to the will of Sod. [caption

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... . Anything in the gap between the subject and the verb is less likely to have ... meaning in context you want it to have; use the thesaurus again if you have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012