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  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... convey who you are (or some aspect of who you are). If I, the reader, am

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

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the ... thing that dawned upon me was the concept of "average." Being average is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup ... the most useful thing ever, why hasn’t anybody thought of that?” (My ... Tea-do (one of Boston’s very few boba shops) when he realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save ... -14 days for the processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted ... your MyMIT account to follow the progress of your application (You must

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... of the friendships formed here, whether ephemeral or forever. They also ... the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... story of an inception attempt that failed in the face of true love; they ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... off the front page, and the only thing I hate more than getting pushed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each of the groups The next day, I walked through Lobby 10 and saw my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox, I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite ... ...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... that last longer. for the selfish reason of having someone i ... live within a few minutes walk of each other, ever again. we went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... 's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  assignments, you can filter and sort the table and view it in multiple of ways ... example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... is due, the status of the application, any to-do items, the timeline

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more ... different kinds of happy. The Namesake touches on this distinction; I think that it favors the latter sort of lifestyle because it is a coming-of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... snowmen in the moat of the chapel. We celebrated my birthday ... stretched out over a week earlier in the month. It was epic- some of the Bluth

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010