Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions
We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the forthcoming cycle. There's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I...
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Why I Haven’t Been Blogging
Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog posts: ---- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim...
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The Case of the Considerate Robbers
It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile, encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast Pacific Ocean on the other. Tucked into little apartments...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Done (this summer)
Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the...
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Things I Regret…
Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I’ve made while in college... 1. Trying to go for the computer...
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Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms
This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald Spooner, whose Wikipedia page advertises as "notable for absent-mindedness". This from the first sentence of the introduction, where...
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O hai
About four years ago, I ended my very last blog post as a student by saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult...
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Commencement 2017
This week on Blogs That Should Have Been Blogged A While Ago: "On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the...
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PSA: the app is live
The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now available at > > > my.mit.edu < < < You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of your...
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From Charlottesville to Cambridge
We're at a strange point in the political climate where white supremacists, klansmen, and outright Nazis have become comfortable enough to publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people...
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seattle (again)
time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places....
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Calm in Suburban Ohio
When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a...
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Play Labs
January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on virtual reality and augmented reality technology. So...
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Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP
My Freshman Pre-Orientation Program (FPOP), Discover Exercise and Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple...
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Solar Eclipses and Bloggers
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a total solar eclipse, the Moon covers the Sun completely,...
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A Person Studying Persons…
This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a...
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Advice from Graduating Seniors
Orientation has begun. Convocation starts in less than an hour, where the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be...
View ArticleWriting the MIT Application Essays
The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?"...
View Articleactual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually, there's so many cool -- FROSH: isn't that the ...you know ... clothing optional ... dorm? ME: ... FROSH: seems kinda dirty too ME:...
View ArticleSupporting our DACA Students
If you've been following the news, you may know that the Trump Administration is reportedly reconsidering Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that allows undocumented students...
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