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  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the changes they make in the real world. Unfortunately the commencement video ...  click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ...  I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are ... -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now ... science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be ... contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... in hats and my cousins and my brother and my sisters and my best friend

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... even formative moments, in some way, will vanish from my internal stores ... elsewhere, the current students, even some of the graduates—are in a unique

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  -calculus-by-second-grade math majors, kids who’ve competed in national olympiads, freshmen and ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... , Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020