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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 ... ). After you draft your essay, give it to a good friend, and ask them if it ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I ... back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the ... students seemed like the kind of people I most wanted to be. As it turned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  "] Budapest looks weirdly similar to MIT?[/caption] It was over Zoom, and there ... up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... ask us to all return to the original classroom. It wasn't a strong start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain ... quality vs. quantity when it comes to leadership roles. “Many students feel ... goal of the GEL Program is to develop leaders, not recognize them and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... be very proud of. But it's not something I'm going to bust out my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  scores sent to MIT. Our College Board (SAT I, SAT II and TOEFL) code is ... applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three ... isn't life, and senior year is supposed to be the most enjoyable year of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... anything in particular) it was 8:45am and I decided to make one last break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar ... vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... I tried to fall back to sleep and hold it til morning, grappled ... shock patterns... by the time we headed back it was starting to look like

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... desire (“omg this person is doing xyz, wouldn’t it be so cool if I could

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  : Bangalore is the best city to work in India –cool weather, awesome ... companies. The city: Beer-Shevais a wonderful city. It is rather relaxed ... fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  've learned since coming here, it's that sleep is very, very, VERY valuable to me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  paraded their airplane into the hangar, it was common to overhear good ... ground to make sure everything is built to specifications and won't explode ... in my life.   When we returned to the competition, it was time for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a ... '05, who majored in Course 7: Biology and is off to Stanford in two ... to the restaurant. This is such a nice walking area, and the evening

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  . Summer in Boston is miserable in some ways but it is beautiful. The air is ... spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https ... got to see it last min!! My coworker made it into album art and it gives ... this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it ... , but it turned out that the class was designed to teach people how to ... whatever stroke you want; all you have to do is complete the required

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  adapts experience to sentience the American Midwest is infuriatingly ... and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010