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  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great

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

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of ... was also a lot of C++ compiler wankery to deal with, because we built it ... provide, made a crumpled nest of my most important notes while I was

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  classes can be directly applicable to important current issues. WGS.151 and ... .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... .g. "what a function looks like”) and the psets require the students to, say

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... I just kept moving, and each time a new crowd started to gather I would walk to a new place. I repeated this sequence over and over, even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... was just so happy to be 'home.' On a side note: Eventually this resolves ... have two.) At a certain point it seems weirder to walk into your family

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  's what I name everything important." 🥺) I realize it's not exactly a novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... good thing, since there is not a lot else enjoyable to think about right

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  . However, it is important to use correct English, as a critical part of the ... %, you got to wonder. Or, should we use a supplementary essay to explain ... asked (in response to this article), "That's a cute story. Is 17 really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later). Will using a fee waiver affect my application? We are happy to accept

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology ... -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... a few people who decide not to take the class, so it's worth showing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  worth of rare and pirated software? Not easy to part with. A chainsaw ... , regular, moderate exercise, and most importantly, no MATLAB. A year goes by without incidence. For the summer I learned to use Octave. Then I finish a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  raffle tickets to win prizes like a Patagonia backpack or a Hubway ... were able to incorporate a variety of textures and patterns by weaving ... Robin - "Our design is a tribute to the Standing Rock-DAPL crisis where

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... 'm too disoriented to figure out when that was), I dreamt about a certain ... fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  important sometimes, too, but I made a conscious decision not to apply to ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... [/annotation] to the field. I am not someone who dreamt of being a scientist as a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for ... somewhere a long way away. I don't know if this joy will be able to persist ... , good). We had such a good time, in fact, that we're going to try cooking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... to one school you'll strike up a strong relationship with a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  would need to do it in a satisfying way.. ..which is okay! Because ... in them. This course will expose you to a range of questions regarding ... to be just? Which ones? Must a society ensure equality in order to be

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3 the wait is OVER

  

  most important piece of media in the 21st century," and which others have ... , January 7, 2025, our eyeballs and ear holes were treated to the long ... refreshed the page over and over again, anticipating Episode 3 to drop. "Hm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... more. And because I was finding it difficult to start up again, here's a ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... and investments): Quite simply, I think that the Institute needs to do a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a ... enough experience to work as second riders.) After a lot of exploring the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006