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  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... . Here are some essay tips to consider (in no particular order): Don ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than ... again, were able to feel as if they were in control of their own ... this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  council so much and I wish we were in person so I could get to know them ... afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  stamped envelope to send their recommendation in, provide them with one ... mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your ... applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three

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

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or ... for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though ... didn't get to eat everything you wanted, you still got a show! Here is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn ... students who are matching in the same year are guaranteed to be ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time ... so kind in helping me learn to use the control board. On Wednesday, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... that added challenge was something we just really did not know how to ... this, we were very enthusiastic to speak up in class when we knew an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  , most anyone can figure out how to put one foot in front of the other, but ... entire thermodynamics lecture to just talking about how cool airplanes are ... to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  and Shaena showed us how to get our bodies out over the side of the bike ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... corner). Video: The ride terminated (as most rides ought to) in a hot tub

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... from one list to the other, in this case from the admit list to the ... it too, in part because of me, I'm so, so sorry. If you want to talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  enroll in the program in their sophomore year and immediately get started ... capstone senior year NEET project. Along the way, students also get to engage ... Matthew Perry in Japan in 1853 with the purpose of “opening up” Japan to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days ... Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... they met with her. They weren't offering money to get in; they and their ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... aerospace acheivement in the history of aerospace. Back to the question ... of living in an uncertain world." How do you make systems that are so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  I get to see him regularly. I hadn't seen the other friend in about ... , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in the same class and left to think about how our fates were still unknown ... going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  you is to get in and then receive your award.']clearly communicable ... have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024