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

  

  ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand ... student body. Do you have an interesting past, an interesting worldview, and interesting hobbies? will do cool things with your MIT education. Do you have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  , but another critic zooms in on a detail. You do know that your building ... still articulate our own missions? I could not do so in that presentation ... progress. When you’re not doing well, the professor and jurors tell it to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  money do not equal happiness So long as you have a certain amount of each ... time doing cool things with interesting people—I will splurge less on ... make do with what clothing and materials I already own, and I will

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

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  's my chance to STUDY!" "I have some major catching up to do!" "AHHHHH ... coming out!" Somehow I found about three people that said they could do ... movies I suppose... But I found something SOOO much cooler that I can do

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  eat. Its an exceptional treat that I would love to do right now. Normally I wouldn't actually do this because I'd be too busy or just not ... Google Maps's sidewalk-free bridge ended and couldn't do it. I ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  education you get. "Why do you like teaching undergraduates?" Ben asked ... to take just as many humanities classes in the humanities as you do in ... anything you'd ever want to do. Seriously, everything. Underwater hockey

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read ... out who had the means, motive, and opportunity to do it. We're given a ... arrive at Hunt Headquarters. Somebody give me something to do.... Friday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose ... classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing ... . Or if you've been dreaming about doing nothing at all, do that! (But I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... part. There are cases in which people have trouble doing the work here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... better do it) "17 semesters of AP" by graduation. That year, the school ... do with summer academic programs. There appear to be two main schools

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  do you ensure you make the best choice? You think about it. You imagine ... predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more ... , then I can’t go to event A tomorrow, which will prevent me from doing

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  do it – and it’s already a dream come true. Putting on the practice ... can’t run into other players and can only do more technical drills like passing and dribbling. But here’s what I can do: I can run now. Not even

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... someone's door and ask to talk or get dinner or do work. and i know that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... people who live in the place, the people who do things in the place, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  what I am doing over IAP (see here), but the post just didn't really encapsulate what exactly happens, y'know? Like sure, I did do what I sought out ... many many more. Things do actually happen over IAP-- more than I can

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  ), or doing absolutely nothing. I felt very okay in a very good way ... we wanted to do for the rest of the semester, I wrote down that I ... managed to do a lot of what I said in the letter. when you get this, i hope

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... internships for next summer, and to be honest, I would love to do something cool ... to actually do nothing. I still believe a lot of AI-based start-ups are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  me: do you think you’re a spiky person or a soft person? they clarified ... doing so with me because i seemed to have many elements of both. i ... doing so very slowly. occasionally i will dive into a contest math problem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... to   do this, and it comes with unique growing pains. I think that ... freshman year: You Will Be Surprised What You Can Do When You Are Forced

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  /directors of the movie, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, were there to do a Q ... it did feel like this movie was doing so much at once, it felt fitting ... and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022