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

  

  ’re satisfied, leave your essays alone. Revision 2, in a week or two. Reread your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  ) I'm a pretty good shot, 2) I like revolvers better than Glocks, 3) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  una manera de obtener lo que deseas. 2. Un curioso alumno de primer año

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  that have pooped on me (I'm looking at you, demon pigeons) (2) Birds at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  did about 10 points worse. He eventually did orgo 2 another time, but

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  . And neuroscience. Lizi '12 baked 2+ trays of cookies, while Davie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  as part of StackExchange 2.0 as a general-purpose Q&A site for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  take 2 weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  . Interesting thing about my shoes, they're a good 2 sizes smaller than my street

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  everyone you meet can be your best friend. When I had my MIT interview 2

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  : especially 1) the state trooper at IHOP and 2) friends we ran into there). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  summer, and that's what Part 2 of this post will be: my busy summer. Part 3

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  other human (1), two cars (2), one canine (1), and one Stephen King

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  Engineering and 2) that they really aren't optimizing the space as well as they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  should desire a GPA of 0.2/5.0 or so. Conventional wisdom for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  . 2.Make rafts safe by Coast Guard standards by attaching glowsticks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a persuasive five-paragraph essay, my three thesis-support arguments would be: (1) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Hotel" in Montreal. Collectively it only cost us $40 for 2 nights. Ok

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  energized and ready to work hard. 2. I’ve been reading a LOT about studying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009