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  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can recognize you in the words as written. If so, it's probably a good essay for ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  I don’t even really have words for (there was this thing with a ... a smaller one. For me, I’d never really lived in a big city like ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  kitchen where John Jackson had cooked for half a century suddenly went out ... as a cook, his role became much more rich and important as social ... assigned as a cook. Stationed at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Helena for four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school ... went into them. And now for the plug… Sure, I did a lot of science

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  held one question out for further inspection. Melissa had asked, "Do you ... graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours ... the men). Let's take a closer look at a few departments. Nationally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  out time to study for a 2.004 test, which I thought I'd have a whole ... . I was going to be forced to take a test I was ill-prepared for and ... class. But, if I studied a little for each, and then did well on each of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier ... on a project for FSAE when I passed this inconspicuous door... Woodie ... ? just for times when you don't xactly have time to make a three

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... shouted along for the fun of it. Let me talk a little bit about cutting

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for ... -the-clouds, basking in the sunshine for a little while…You've worked hard (so, so, hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  is really cool for me, maybe I'll play a minutely important role in the ... in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  have the amazing opportunity to be a panelist for MIT Admissions! On ... Shayna A. '23 where we basically sat in a Zoom room for an hour and chatted ... ended up working with the Undergraduate Association (UA) on a project for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and engineering, but I thought that today I’d focus on a great idea by MIT Medical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae without ending up with my food on my face. It's almost been a decade since ... IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  a really important day with my SO. it means a lot to me Mount ... , i strongly recommend creating your own playlists for each year! it's a ... music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i

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

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  qualifying for a spot for the 2019 US Championships in mid-January. That night ... toooo much. I had a stomach ache for the rest of the night). Tuesday, I ... . To pause for a hot second, and take a breath. Several deep breaths

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... drafts for my main essay. This is like a world record for me, since I am ... AP testing. Simply, I just hate writing multiple drafts for a single

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a ... written anything blog-like over the past half year for a multitude of ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  Spanish since the 8th grade, having taken a Spanish class every year for the ... speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  . (Luckily, that's not a problem for most of us at MIT -- 80% of MIT undergrads ... for them. Actually, they'll pay you! I mean, it's not a huge amount, but ... even applied for a fellowship that will (if I win it) pay me $45,000 a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005