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  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it. (250

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note ... the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... —someone could live-stream walking around Next House, for example—and the planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  . I was also looking for a home for the next five years as I pursue my ... ’ve been looking for a job in the Bay Area [2013]. I’d like to work on ... -3) Currently, I am looking for a software engineering job in the video game or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , and they will all look soft and warm and inviting in the same way the ... look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... MIT as a staff member for a few years, knew my way around the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... 's been teaching for over fifty years. And then I fell down the rabbit hole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  building blocks. For example, the house and the square that we looked at ... pearls on the equidecomposable house and square we looked at earlier. For ... was (the inifinite-ish quantity of) proofs for the infinity of primes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  -lettered fraternities and sororities. Officially, the nine organizations constitute the ... , this was where the dialogue started for her. For AudreyRose, this event ... [annotation note=" IFC stands for Interfraternity Council and Panhel is the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  all the time - for real or under the guise of pset parties - exchanging ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  hangout was my last official commitment for the day, so now I am free! I ... the next."]early[/annotation]to class, for the first time in possibly over two months. It is unfortunately not helpful because for the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the ... at MIT, that's what we're looking for. Best wishes, Ben ... basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  help him. She had to go look for help, the deserted storage building had ... journal my aunt got me for Christmas one year). Every time I found the same result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  for the cool girl in school was what it felt like to be straight. And I ... watching for years (not the small queers youtubers I mentioned earlier, these ... didn’t have the words to express how I felt, but looking back at that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow ... , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even ... importantly, I escaped the infamous “MIT Bubble” that I had slaved under for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  within the media industry, an atypical choice for an MIT student, my ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they like the opportunity to talk to current students. Some alumni don’t want

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  each other.   Put another way: we are not looking for the thousand ... , underrepresented backgrounds that make our hearts bleed. We are looking for the best ... talk about merit in the admissions process, what we really mean, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did ... aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... ‘no’. Recognize when you’re hosed for the week, and don’t volunteer to ... studying for that test and didn’t even do well on the test anyway so you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... actually grab the folders to look at the scores, since that wasn't the part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024