<p>I have a lot to write about:</p>
<p>I've lived in six countries and speak 4 languages.</p>
<p>I won a competition which gave me a trip to Pakistan to meet the President and Tony Blair (prime minister of UK)</p>
<p>However, MIT essay B is so hard. what are my dreams and aspirations? to be successful and make a difference and make money and be happy?</p>
<p>how are my dreams and aspirations different from any1 else's?</p>
<p>I did not get what you mean. What do you want me [for instance] to do so?
Why you participated in competition, lived in six countries etc.
You ask unknown people about your dreams?</p>
<p>I guess that MIT has chosen this topic, beacause they are afraid that there are people who do not have dreams and aspirations, but have good achievements. The problem with such people might be that they won't know what to do when someone other would not tell them... And this is good only during education, not after that.</p>
<p>Please explain...</p>
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I have a similar belief, and I also feel this is the most important part of your MIT application.</p>
<p>plan A: write from your heart. unless you are a droid, you have dreams for the future. you just need to find them. </p>
<p>plan B: just feed'em some ********. Be like, my dream is to end world hunger/overpop/terrorism, and advance man kind's status.</p>
<p>Don't write what Sagar said to write for plan B.</p>
<p>Those are the common essays that people write for colleges and they are never good unless they sound real.
You have to make it convincing, so just sit down and think about what you want out of life. Maybe you want to be some programmer that makes something better than the comoputer. </p>
<p>Do what Sagar said in A for B, write from your heart, make it sound convincing, give an example that shows you are already working towards this dream.</p>
<p>the point is, aren't my dreams the same as every1 else's? i want to be successful in my field and change the world in a positive world?</p>
<p>is that what they want us to write?</p>
<p>do they expect that every student has a different past, and as a result, have different dreams and aspirations as a result of their pasts?</p>
<p>first off:</p>
<p>Take everything Michael_Pham and I say, as we are just sophomores. </p>
<p>I think that you are going to have to do some thinking. What do you live for? What drives you each and every morning? What do you believe you purpose in life is?</p>
<p>or just follow plan B. Works 73.35% of the time</p>
<p>"what are my dreams and aspirations? to be successful and make a difference and make money and be happy?"</p>
<p>what do you want to be successful in? how do you want to make a difference? what will you do that will make you happy? how will you become successful? what do you want to make a difference in? how will your achievements (so far) help you achieve your dreams and spirations? </p>
<p>just some examples...what you said was very general. sure everyone wants to be successful and make the world a better place, but you have to go deeper than that (or at least deeper to have a truly fantastic essay). i'm sure the AdComs don't want to read another "i want to win a nobel prize by finding the cure to AIDS" spiel. use this essay to really say who you are and tell them something about yourself.</p>
<p>Could you say speciffically what are your dreams and aspirations?
I would be able to tell you if mine are the same ;). It would be simply more efficient than tens of people writing about their: look: you write one long post, and others: n<em>short posts. Otherwise: n</em>long posts, you one short post, or nothing.</p>
<p>I did essay B. My approach was to answer the question, "What inspires you, and why does it inspire you?" Your achievements here are immaterial. The no. of languages you speak and prizes you have earned is not what they care about in this essay. They want to know about YOU. And if you think it's not important, you're dead wrong.</p>
<p>Don't forget that the question also asks about the world you came from.. your community, not just your aspirations and dreams. That's like a whole half of the prompt.</p>
<p>it's okay even if your dreams right now are just "i want to be successful in my field"--you're just 17/18ish, and they're not looking for a flowchart of your next 20 years. i think if you just write about what field it is that you want to go into, why you want to go into that field, what successes you hope to achieve while working in that field, etc., you can end up with a great essay. doesn't hurt to think about what your dreams outside of your career are, either: family, personal growth, adventures, anything else you can think of. your life sounds pretty interesting, and i'm sure that you can find enough to write about to make MIT interested in your life, too. good luck =)</p>
<p>tell a story...show how you became who you are. I dont think MIT wants to know exactly what you want to be, they want to know what drives you, what excites you, how you react to things. like i said tell them a story about something that changed your point of view, what you have done with it, and how you approach situations because of it. show them why you are a match...they dont just want some kid who wants to do what he is "supposed" to do. they are looking for that self-driven, genuinly excited about learning, growing, and acheiving person. you have to convince them of that by showing, not by telling them. give them examples and make it real; the readers are real people. thats all i did, i let myself out into that essay. nobody can tell you how to do it, but MIT will know how much you care by how passionate your writing is. and dont write that you want to make money. thats one of those red flags, dont let him in, statements.</p>
<p>or just to make life easy, do essay A</p>
<p>yeah essay A was better, but you would approach both of them the same anyways. I did A</p>
<p>i thought essay A was easier, but maybe that's because i wanted to make mine at least somewhat humorous and B seems like a serious topic.</p>
<p>the "ending world hunger" idea that sagar suggested will put your adcom to sleep. you could still get in, but it won't be because of the essay.</p>
<p>it's not what I wrote about but some of the things sagar said in B are NOT impossible. They just take a lot of effort and discoveries but they can happen. If you have a dream like that then you should write about it.</p>