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• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or ... popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very ... of this,” I thought to myself as I clenched everything

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  going to four different places, so I thought I could offer some reviews of ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of ... , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston ... of a show called "Design Squad." One of Design Squad's major sponsors

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  that is possible. Most students take the most rigorous version offered of ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The ... provide a lot more of information about myself other than what's on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  university." There are a lot of very, very good universities, that are just as ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... , citing a lack of interviewers in my region. Will this adversely affect my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007