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  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  taking a look at it. Here’s the statement. But I think one of the best things about MIT is that we are not part of the common application, which ... our application completely independent of all the other common app

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  the episode’s dialogue remains true regardless of whether you believe in ... traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... an oral tradition is, it means the way this current of energy is passed

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... semesters; it's usually 13.5 weeks of classes, plus 1 week of exams."]the end ... , it turns out that the week before the last week-and-point-five of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... MIT account to find out the name of your EC, and to schedule the interview

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware, 1999 Masters of Public Administration (Home of The Fightin' Blue Hens AKA ... thoracic surgeon helping the indigenous population of the Republic of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... 's something that I see even in the very walls of MIT. I know more people here ... , athletes, and even Facebook stalkers in the student body; all of these people

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  during my lunch hour at the Z center this summer. Clary Clish, director of ... been working since 2008 in the rapidly growing field of metabolomics ... on that! Well ok, you can, but from the looks of the research, I need

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  first CPW, too, and I can tell you that the sheer quantity of options is daunting (in a good way). Luckily the level of enthusiasm all over campus is ... call/email to us can't unravel the mystery of CPW, the only thing left to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most ... only member of the media there.  Arriving a few minutes early, I spotted ... just the first day of Charm School!  Friday's the main event, with five

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our ... was stationed outside of the prison, patrolling the perimeter. I was in

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... is the only mailing list I ever took myself off of, because I stopped

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video ... whatever. But, I mean, the actual taking pictures and videos of people, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its ... looking at this. The fact that we even made this. The word choice of “FOOL

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour ... students give presentations on their research and the chair of the admissions

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free ... of MIT students' social interactions or the next Facebook - if it's the ... beginning, and would not mind getting a cut of the stock. But maybe anonymous

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of ... ) *Application of the Suspended Microchannel Resonator as a Biosensing Device to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... and great, Neha had gotten in! But what about the two of us? What was ... here. (We were all accepted, by the way, and now the three of us are here

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in ... study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009