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  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  help their application is make sure everything is done on time!). As you ... these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed

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

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Beast, Slugfest, etc. To my knowledge, this is Hex's first year competing ... higher reps. Of course, one rep is better than none. I'm happy to have had ... Building 54) is the tallest building in Cambridge. When it was built in 1964

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge ... future employment. I've often thought that grad school is the only possible ... more intriguing to me than my bio classes. I don't know if grad school is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is ... , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... , I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a ... concept of choreography is very different than the very repetitive movements

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  exhibitions, and the fact that a 6-hour flight is 6 hours too long (and ... past year I've been comforted by the fact that Boston is beautiful and I ... I haven't dearly missed my family and friends back home. California is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  about the MIT startup community. One of the projects I'm co-leading is ... successful startup in terms of numbers thus far is Silicon Spice, which was ... competition is tonight. And I can't wait to start planning our winter

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  wonderfully well is when I got to the boathouse for rowing practice, the daily ... there is the general firehose that is MIT. When the professor throws ten

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  lab. GEL stands for the Gordon Engineering Leadership program, and it is ... boxes to fit. There is a peculiar flavor of delight that one experiences when an epiphany is had or a clue is satisfactorily answered. Perhaps one

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  (and other delicious things) they've made to celebrate Pi Day (which is ... something about trying (and failing) to apply to grad school. My point is ... to MIT, you will almost certainly be able to study at a college that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm ... had just made. But this is Simmons, so they knew that I was dead serious ... that Simmons is one of the only places in the world that could

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  is an investment partner there, I've been following them ever since. What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... the MIT students in DRF startups is their breadth of backgrounds

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is ... who knows. Like is it winter or is it not? ----------- Side note

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  dressed out of the norm. Wearing just a flannel shirt is out of the norm ... make dinner for our vegetarian Co-op that night.  Shaws is about a ... pieces at friends is all it takes to make a terrible week a million times

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a ... the performance live rather than watching on TV is that the commercial

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  took home a few lessons from the competition. Predominant is the fact ... Dog, and mission score is divided by weight, USC finished with in first ... bringing our A-game next year, though--so be prepared. Corn Dog, Jr. is on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  is not the greatest idea, especially if I plan on getting any sleep ... never have to use, but nonetheless, its presence is comforting ... calculus), 18.03 (differential equations), and 21f.703 (Spanish 3). Is it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is ... fake meth behind both flasks. I saw this hack and I thought “Yep, this is what MIT is all about. Taking things that no one else would ever think of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I ... syndrome (though nobody really does). But one thing is for certain: I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013