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  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... essays out loud. In this revision you are looking for what I call emotional ... Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... , musicians and everything in between. Some are teachers, teaching in schools not far from yours while others are in school as students themselves

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  in high school and I think the Romans are ridiculous and really ... there’s minimal homework and free lunch! I worked in an NIH Clinical ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... bloggers, y'all better keep this going next year so I can f e e d on the ... about it. This year, I'm going to be extra and do a bloggers wrapped

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  how to answer this one. I'm thankful ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  % participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... ,000 toward our class project, but just how much he will give depends entirely ... donor. Below is the "grading scale" for how well our class will do on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  both cornerstones of my experience in Taipei last summer. i got this ... dozens of these sometime early in the year, so i grabbed 3(rd) and put them ... our floor's massive merch order that came sometime in IAP. i bought a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  that I took here. I learned a ton about the manufacturing process in a ... ...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this year or my feelings.... no, it's about my favorite class that I took this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Agency (CIA) iRobot Biogen Idec Bose Goldman Sachs Veolia Water ... Kinsey & Company Microsoft ...and that's just a sampling. When I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  about 40-50 students, so I figured 60 students would be a safe guess for ... I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect when I got here. Sara had mentioned the play in class our first week, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  lively interest in the matter, and I think will help it substantially. I am sorry, my dear brother, that I can give no reliable good news in ... , I think, of the free States in general, will refuse a compromise which

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... anything isn’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and Petey or I ... It's July again, which means that: I started a co-op Stardew

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  pretty stressful since I've been unbelievably crappy about making progress ... physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my excitement I thought I'd start the photo series on my classes this term (the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  .370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate ... strategy (hopefully those extra hours will pay off). So I entered 26-100 after exiting lab and found the lecture hall in a standing room only

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... encourages leadership development. Next week I have a personal UPOP meeting in ... …or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.   ... . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted ... MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex ... , and I hope we'll see even more of it in the other bloggers' posts this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024