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  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... decide what to write about, pretend a friend you hadn't spoken to in awhile

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

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  briefly during the train’s designated “smoke break.” It was great to see a ... on my poetry. I think that, once I get back to a real laptop, I will be able to compile all of these changes and have a reasonable draft of most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... dinner, and take a train to Princeton. As we arrive at Princeton, one of my ... things in his room, we head to a math lounge in one of their buildings that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... high school. I went to an IB school, so I had to write a 4,000 word ... happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... 's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... . Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... . I had a lot of stuff to pack. Go figure. You accumulate a lot of stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the ... [annotation note="which definitely varies from class to class! There were only a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can ... "pretty", I think there's a lot of beauty if you know where and how to find

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened ... [/caption] Which they forwarded to the Public Records Officer at City Hall. A few ... a community of women. To my knowledge, the only man who lived here at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• 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 ... relocated him to an extremely comfortable pillow. On a much more impressive

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  Admissions officer available to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure ... If you’re wanting to apply Early Action (EA) to MIT this year but ... disasters, know that our hearts go out to you from MIT Admissions. It

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just ... quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it ... a foreign land which told her she didn't belong, which told her to go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... . So I try to turn to the thing that usually does a good job of making me ... this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  ://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language ... example, here's an opening to a typical first draft: I am applying to the ... challenged — all undergrads going on to a grad program will be challenged, no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the musical then transitions to a song entitled "It Sucks To Be Me" so let ... econ PhD programs go on to research/teach as professors or employees of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my ... I was walking down Mass Ave yesterday under an umbrella with a friend

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage (for his cars), a heliport (for his two helicopters). In addition to a ... Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008