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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?

  

  Champloo, to Cowboy Bebop and Paranoia Agent, the time I would have normally ... person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re ... Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  you spend your time, or you won't do any better. Trust me. I have the ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... was horrified to find that time was not the issue – I had no more time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  start a company, you have to make sure that all your employees are working ... having to do community service, which confused me because our school didn ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  I need to return home, to my new home. So many times I have looked at ... have nothing but the cold, dirty water to help. It’s times like this when ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... : you climb up to the platform like you’re climbing up to a diving board ... merge one more time to high-five and expend remaining supplies. The east

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... accomplishment? Seeing your name on the leaderboard from week to week? There's really not that much I have to offer you, unless you want fruit snacks. Or

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  prepared (and well-funded I might add) to have to time of my life seeing how ... experiment 5:30–All done. Time to leaveeeee The evenings are always pretty ... the free time I have well. I don’t necessarily mean squeezing every last

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time ... bucketloads of faith in tow. Time to begin your search! Resources to take ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . Your reasons simply have to exist and provide you the conviction to Do ... admissibility, and more importantly, your worth, really have nothing to do with ... students.) You do have to score high enough for your application to make it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you. Eat ... time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of ... only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  things I never used to let myself have time for. It was very much ... showers. I wound up running five-to-seven miles every time because of this ... ’d messed up the time zones and had to book an extra night, and the only bed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... post. This time, I have a story. The story is not about me (well, not ... pursue international projects on your own initiative and time. You could

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... bottle of water we had to chug before going through security. This time, I ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It ... up having to do a third interview, which went well. Shortly afterward

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  your time, how to study efficiently, and how to use your resources ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012