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  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by ... you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year ... friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to your community

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there ... important to me saying, "Get your shit together Caroline." Getting my shit ... 'm still off by almost 40% when comparing the total estimated spending to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... that kids need to be perfect. We get rewarded by U.S. News rankings for ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  by this new nugget of knowledge. Turns out the rest of the week was ... encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... , "Stop asking me if you're going to fall and break your neck, you're going

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of ... to get work done. I found that the best test of whether I really ... Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  TOO FAR! They may get freaked out if your IM pops up and your best ... . Disable your IM and then walk away. Parents, Welcome to the Nance Effect! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  direction, I would have to continue going to boring meetings surrounded by ... (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... —it’s possible to want to cultivate your professional prospects while still being

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  field extensions to love and all relationships. The whiteboard by my door ... engineers, and we love to stay updated on their projects. One day, we may get ... dozens of posts, and whether I’ll get to writing them is unclear. I hope

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  type of creativity that I enjoy expressing but rarely get to in highly ... "[/caption] If you want to try this project out, you can...do your best and see if ... the whole project, but I couldn't believe that getting a VR hand to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... responses of your friends vary, and it's fun to discuss different answers when ... introspection. One example, "to what do you attribute to your success," generated

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... Another Believer by Rufus Wainwright begins to play in the background ... ends. Take on Me (Acoustic) by a-ha (0:00) starts to play in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your ... , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  by the OWC courses, I helped to adapt graduate-level econ subjects to ... . This experience has sparked my interest in getting a job related to International ... to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  you telling me with your design?" Diana explains that she likes to ... headed on over to the Project Runway website to check out Ms. Eng's bio ... you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  a little fancy, get a New York strip steak (by the way - the meal plan ... can effectively tack on $12 to the price of your restaurant meal. This ... that's because I like seafood and steak.  You could easily get your

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  you so that you can get to know them too, not just me. I know that for ... Programming Competition, and the website that gets the most Facebook likes in ... for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by ... and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... isn't that bad. So therefore your outing will be inherently great. "HOW

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013