<p>so how can we?</p>
<p>There is a contest around new years, you have to submit your previous blog entries I think, and blog on a very weird topic.</p>
<p>It’s not around New Year’s – it will be in the summer.</p>
<p>To be more explicit, given that you have to submit previous blog entries, you should already be blogging and be interesting. A lot of people apply every year, and the new bloggers are chosen by a committee of a few admissions officers and the senior bloggers that year.</p>
<p>Man, back in my (and Mollie’s) day, it was so much easier and less complicated…</p>
<p>I was personally recruited and hired by Ben Jones when I visited during CPW. This was mostly because he thought it was funny that I was vulgar and angsty on my personal blog.</p>
<p>Now there’s a whole application. How times change.</p>
<p>In addition to submitting your personal blog, you usually need to write an entry based on a crazy prompt, or submit your favorite youtube video, or something like that. It’s basically a portfolio and a handful of odd/interesting short answers.</p>
<p>Yeah, I remember getting this email out of the blue from this guy named Ben Jones – I almost deleted it, because I thought it was probably spam.</p>
<p>Oh, Ben. They don’t make internet stalkers like him anymore.</p>
<p>At CPW last year, I walked up to the check-in table and he shouted ‘IS THAT KAREN?!!’ It was somewhat alarming.</p>
<p>But yeah, oh Ben. Now I know why my blog averaged 3 hits a day from MIT.EDU :)</p>
<p>Ben didn’t recognize me at CPW. I was very sad. 
(Well, not really, since I never posted on the blogs until after I was accepted or anything. I just would have been really impressed if he had known me. :D)</p>
<p>Random note - I didn’t start my public blog until a fair bit after I was accepted into MIT(June 11, 2007, to be precise), mainly because I didn’t feel like my high school experience was exciting enough to write about. 
However, I was quite prolific once I finally got going.</p>
<p>^Well, it doesn’t hurt that the selection committee probably isn’t going to read more than 20 or so entries per applicant, because there are so many applicants. :)</p>
<p>I take credit for you – you were my number one pick, and I advocated for you in our selection committee.</p>
<p>Admit it, you miss me.</p>