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  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. Here are a ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  's) headspace for your essays. Here are a few tips, tricks, and aphorisms I ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial ... a dedicated group of sympathizers spent summer days photographing the ... almost feel like a museum exhibit if I didn't recognize some of the faces

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... origins of schizophrenia and autism. They talk a little bit about ... building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  befriended by a group of warrior women with a quiver of arrows. They give Joe ... 9 8 2 1 4 5 3 6 4 7 5 Discussion: This is just a map, can't do too much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  occasionally remember a deadline"]blogger captain,[/annotation]our newest group ... to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read ... loves to binge-watch Avatar: The Last Airbender Paolo A. '21 of Nevada

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  fact that a student who used to work for our office graduated and now ... I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  .  This "little" undergraduate research project netted him a cover article for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature.  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... . We honor Squanches and eat a whole lot of pancakes. Perhaps one of ... all. Here is a story about Derp Cat's intelligence. One day, Derp Cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... uniquely American institution.  At a time when budget cuts across the nation ... head like a scary movie, rolling like a fireball towards Fahrenheit 451

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead ... immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... rumors- at MIT, everything is given a number. Classes, buildings, trees

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  bean and garlic sauce. It is amazing. It will last me a week, because I ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining ... a dining hall when I can go to my floor kitchen - or, better yet, when

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  care about people - I'm a good dad THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT ... - Shirt - Shoes THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS: - Tremulant - Death Cab For ... | The Joshua Tree - Death Cab | Transatlanticism TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... and Gabe put on velcro suits and then thrust themselves onto a large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... . So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay ... France, the is a daunting question of "Great, I'm finished. What now?" For ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  and influence policy solutions for mitigation and adaptation In a 3Q ... most pressing global challenge of our time. Solutions for mitigating and ... impacts of a changing climate * How to model and analyze complex climate and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  public case for itself, to prospective students, with a strong message ... , unearthed a lost (literally: it had been misnamed and misfiled) MIT Admissions ... armament, for civil rights — was arguably the single most politically active

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

      If a 5-kg pumpkin is tossed through a snowstorm such ... cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind ... Northeast without power but promptly turned into a miserable deposit of slush

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011