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  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... Cooking" and "How to Make a Bike". Or those who want to explore a new field ... to do with turning an idea into a commercially viable business

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... after, a teaching assistant at MIT enlisted Perlman to help him. "He ... improvement, she redesigned a program with graphics such as turtles to make it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I ... have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  had been on my to-do list since getting to MIT. It’s a pretty good way ... mechanical engineering, I made a point to have a more relaxing IAP while still ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... cold, and the way the sun disappears by four bothers me a lot actually

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  complete-- but we get by as best as we can. This is what makes society and ... comes to the rules of society (or subsets thereof), I am often (at best) a ... : Don’t Break It. Song: Back to Black, by Amy Winehouse While the last

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... July, you get sent a temporary housing assignment (this year, everyone

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  deadlines and requirements). By getting yourself organized now, you're ... would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a conversation with each teacher about a) if they would be willing to write you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  potential to not only get into a good school but flourish there; however, due ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to ... -date and to be patient as we process thousands of documents. By not calling ... : We have received 18,064 total applications, a 1% increase over last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , being so deeply engrossed in a topic. And I get to take this depth with me ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... they had time to talk. That person became a mentor to him, encouraged him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... classes, but I know already that it's going to be a rough semester. In the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... intelligence instead. I went to a coding camp over the summer that I really liked ... school go to for pursuing pre-med. It's difficult to find a physics

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  't remember making a --" At this point, he was abruptly interrupted by a sharp ... to...?" Luciana glanced up hopefully. "Oh! Amore mio, I promised you a ... . Afterwards, let's go to Luigi's and you can paint me there. Make it a good one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by ... “trick way” or “back door” to get into MIT. Your application is not a game ... So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  fucking idea" and to enter a relationship with someone almost done with ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free ... given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017