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

  

  this year. Although our application does not go live for another few weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  on it are rather boring ("Get your picture taken with Tim the Beaver ... worth doing, but...it's just not that special. Which is why I've decided ... REX, whatever you want to call it) 2. See the live show of Rocky Horror

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note ... that as soon as I stepped on campus, it was like no time had ever passed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  into the IAP time. This way, MIT does its best to cater to the previous ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this ... Relativity 24.900- Intro to Linguistics Only, as it turns out, 6.081, 8 ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That ... , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  a classmate calling studio “a time warp” – you just don’t know how long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  Boston, all I thought about was how quiet my hometown was. It was hard to ... how starry the sky could be, and how blue. It’s almost ridiculously ... phantom. I’m not sure how to handle it, exactly.  In grade school, I would

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  this time as Josh taught us how to use the CNC. Its blades are enclosed ... in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  it rhymes), because while MIT does have a communal love of gargantuan ... . It's a good deal, right? They give everyone quite a show (how else ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and the researcher (oftentimes their professor) than it does between the ... December. Naturally, we ran with it. Before Levitt co-authored the book ... from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . How does your brain use your eyebrows? How many cells are in a panda ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  interview; you know how to prioritize, triage, get stuff done. But it teaches ... extracurriculars, get my homework done and still sleep at night. And it was true, but ... ."]I cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend it doesn’t exist if i set down my pen maybe go firespin it will ... , fragmented by time Lashes out at its own decisions Stand up and look me in the ... past? It stands catatonic, unable to die, So wake me up and free me Face

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in ... first. I wanted to try painting in gouache since it was an unfamiliar medium, and I wanted some good copic markers, but quickly realized how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  of take some time to answer any random questions like “how often can you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard kids, where does the illuminati stay on campus, can someone major in a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... before picture of my cubicle. We'll see how it looks at the end of the ... sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  it on loop while writing long math papers... It is effectively a ... Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... am so excited. Rheingold is the first opera (Wagner called it the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006