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  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on ... college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... word makes you look as good to an employer as possible. You guys can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I ... hell did for me. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them ... , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  junior/senior PDF (you can designate two classes during your junior and ... ever seen. There is no getting around it, and you might as well be ... you feel worse with each step that gets you closer to the finish line

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted ... overtrain your brain as much as you can overtrain your body. I’ve done both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... enough for now. As you can tell, I really enjoy cross stitching. You should try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... 'll never know what you can accomplish until you push yourself. I also found ... you struggle and get too tense, you sink -- so just float and stay

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  just a haze. Sometimes even months. Not months where getting things done ... , which you can think of as my “energy”, or “charge”, or “productive hours ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's important to find someone whose style benefits you the most, so you can get ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  , campus gyms can also get quite busy. As someone who has worked the front ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast ... and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , and then it stops for a while, before raining again. When you get caught ... , but it's always a nuisance. You can go for weeks, months, years of your ... like if the wind won't get you, the floods will. If your roof doesn't get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  You just can't wait to be King. No one will tell you no, or where to go ... . Now it’s your turn. Here is where Random Hall is: If you’re an MIT ... missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... 'd just have to meet them. The best I can do is try to introduce them to you ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  complete without the acknowledgment that it is a place where you will most ... , and happily changed the subject—“You should go on a lab tour where I ... . You get an empty, sinking feeling in your stomach, and you wonder if you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sweep as Ayomide walks into Lobby 7 of MIT (if you look closely you can ... Riri Williams attend lecture here--although, you can make students go to class, but you can’t make them pay attention, as she demonstrates by half

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  want to go to school, where you want to live when you get there, what to ... was determined to not be embedded into this blog post, but you can ... you can catch my Random Hall friends (below), the graduated bloggers, or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... ? Do you have the patience for receiving e-mails like "HOW DO I GET INTO ... efficiently under deadline pressure, so Davie gave me an assignment: "you have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  family and contributing at home.  How many hours of sleep did you get last ... from even the things that are good for you and you can do that without ... of advice you’ve gotten from someone? Bryan: Professional - I get a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021