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

  

  my friend Amy ’13 showed me Write or Die. It's helpful for writing fast ... . She can be horribly depressing but she can keep me in the zone for hours

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

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , who viewed me as a potentially embarrassing statistic on their otherwise ... - they were being paid $8/hour just like me, even with their degrees. I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  think. Me: I will. And I had my job for the day. My first order of ... me, Trang wriggled halfway through the opening and was just able to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... . That got me thinking. MIT students are in general used to a history of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  other physics classes?” you ask. Well, let me prelude my good ... ten years. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go chug a bottle of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  , but trust me, a lot of work went into that doorframe. Caitrin is ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  restaurant recommended to me by Winnie '02. Lo and behold, stepping through ... , waking up again, Ben's mom compelling me to swallow another slice of toast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  $600 on me this semester, which means that they love me more than most of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  I took four HASS classes this semester. What, stop looking at me like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS ... are awesome. This brings me to another point. Foreign Language classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... , photosynthesizing peach trees still fills me with bubbles of frucose-anticipating joy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... with them. I took 48 units in the spring, and I'm glad I did - it gave me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  October, and my SAT IIs in November, which would qualify me for early ... it recognized my year abroad and gave me credits accordingly? We

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  .) This leads me into my next point. I ended my last application advice ... “hook.” If anyone asks me what they mean by “Tell us about something you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  friend Akhil '05 MEng '06 IMed me and asked if I wanted to go explore ... was pretty difficult for me academically, since I didn't take AP Physics

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

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  for me, this means that I have a ton of data analysis to do. Basically ... logs this information to Excel. It takes me about 10 minutes to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  MIT education is going to take me yet. Right now, as a result of my UROP ... PhD to find, or it could need me to get right out of undergrad and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  that made me doubt that he even respected the intelligence of his ... fascinated me. Somewhere in the introduction, he starts by insisting that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  other first-year programs.) They gave me the schedule, but also mentioned ... Hi! At CPW, some students in Macgregor were telling me that a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I ... this commotion left me with quite a favorable impression of Dr. Nakamats

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  be able to provide me with a letter of recommendation by November 1st ... to submit grades until the following Wednesday. Would you like me to ... -editing abilities would give admission officers a better picture of me." Matt '00

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009