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

  

  words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel ... Langer has made enormous contributions to the fields of biotechnology and ... dedicated to celebrating his incredible achievements. Albert Kwon, a Junior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... audience. Only the Hamentashen side is getting little stickers to go along ... . I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  actually get out on the water. Over the summer, I finally managed to get on ... get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... , it also takes me much longer to get to campus, and I have to plan a lot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  normal, but it took me a few days to relax when I get into the front seat ... This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... together, and get to know each other (more than a bit). it’s easier than you ... All words beyond this introduction belong to Piper L. '17 (who is no

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  tattoo. I read some articles on tattoo care, and the tl;dr was not to get ...   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  not. But while I’m reading your application, I should be able to get to ... that students really do get admitted to places like MIT. Chipping away at ... months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... as I attempt to navigate the world. I wish I had some hope to impart

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to ... 've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  't get to attend as many of the workshops as I would've liked, but I have ... I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  think I’m crazy.   “I’ll get a UROP to have something to do.” But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  really hard. Knowing how difficult it was to get my daily routine in check ... would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  ended up speaking some Spanish anyway when I needed to get a point across ... dad said to me "Well, we didn't get to see everything, but I think we ... good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019