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  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  's) headspace for your essays. Here are a few tips, tricks, and aphorisms I ... underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

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

  FAQ

  

  arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  who I should call back. It was quite a comical at the time but still ... can do to help you get in contact with them. Don’t be afraid to ask for help but do give them a little time to respond. It’s not necessary for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it, Akash asked, "Hey Laura, do you have any bread?" Now I'm a friendly kid, always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but...I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce ... a laundry loop and get them back and continue the cycle.  So when I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  ! A resident of Random Hall prepares a dry ice (!) drink for me. TEP ... Campus Preview Weekend has begun! Here are some photos from Day 1: Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack ... current (and future) MIT students, I suspect, I loved the BTTF movies as a ... video, I wished we could save the future from the past. But then I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... on different gear settings Basically, I used my old roomate as a ... . Too eh. Experiment #3: A block and an inclined plane I think we all

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  I don't usually watch TV but recently I saw a few episodes of The ... 'm sharing with you now. Have fun watching. I included the descriptions from ... , and Freedom University (a college for undocumented students).  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... hours for 2 psets, although you can always pull an all-nighter," I tell ... I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a ... ’s the perfect size for my A5 notebook, and that one’s big enough to hold ... hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... . Copy & paste: If you copy and paste from a program like Microsoft ... characters from Microsoft Word and a too-lengthy Additional Information section

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  , i strongly recommend creating your own playlists for each year! it's a ... playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... you what dorm to live in (could be forked from this which I'm ... students have joined a mailing list and Slack channel to work on ideas. I don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ocean is only a short train ride or drive away. In fact, many of ... train or a ferry. This means that the trips wind up being really

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to ... Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... answers questions for kids. I particularly like his answer to the last ... awesome. But I digress.) Tim was pretty fascinating, so I checked out his

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery, money transfer, mapping, etc.  Without further ado, here's a quick guest

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Standing Room Only, so yay. From 1-2, we hosted a round-table discussion for ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... , and reserves a lecture for the economics of prostitution. The story is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007