MIT Essay Advice

College Essays
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<p>One of the questions/prompts for my MIT application is:
Tell us about the most significant challenge you've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you manage the situation?(*) (200-250 words)</p>

<p>I... don't really have anything here. I don't recall anything "significant" going wrong IRL. I guess I've just lived a privileged life with more success than failures when it comes to "significant" challenges. </p>

<p>I'm not sure. I do think I might be able to pull off something though... it's from a video game, though, which is why I think it might be too risky...</p>

<p>It has to do with a failure in a fleet battle (in the MMORPG EVE Online, with people I knew, though not IRL or face-to-face) and how we recovered from it with optimism and determination. I think I can make it sound grand, but due to the nature of the topic, it might be hard to push emotion through without IRL, face-to-face contact or experience (although, I could add how that made the defeat even more difficult and the victory even sweeter).</p>

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<p>Well. At first I wrote something along the lines of “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo”… then I erased it.</p>

<p>Our real-life experiences are changing a lot. Depending upon the reader, it could come across as something cheesy, or as something truly creative, inspirational, and representative of how our virtual and real-life experiences are becoming more and more intertwined. Heck, anonymous, hacktivism, Wikileaks, were all conceive in the virtual world and have changed the dynamics of geopolitics.</p>

<p>Pulling it off would be amazing!</p>

3

<p>It has the potential to seem so frivolous. Seriously nothing in your life has not gone to plan?</p>

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<p>I have PM’d you both my response. If anyone else wants to get in the discussion, PM me, but I’d like to keep this thread free from lurkers / leaving ideas out in the open for someone to take.</p>