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The MIT undergraduate application doesn't have a general Personal Statement. The essay prompts are specifically tailored to target the most creative, dream-chasing, problem-solving parts of you. They’re much more personal than a traditional PS because they really force you to dig deep into some of the most private areas of your life. Keep in mind that these short essays can be an incredibly powerful way of showing these admissions officers who you truly are as a person. What do you want them to take away from your application? Will they have a good picture of the real you?

MIT的本科申请没有一般性的个人陈述要求。Essay Prompts（一些列的观点陈述）希望通过这样让申请人根据自身经历来量身定做属于自己的文案，从而发掘申请人最具有创造力的、追逐梦想的、善于解决问题的那部分。他们与传统的PS相比十分个性化，因为他们“迫使”你去挖掘自己生活最具有私人特征的那个领域。一定要记住，这些短小的文章是让录取官们真正了解你之为你的非常有力的方式，包括你想让他们从你的申请中得到什么信息，他们能否从这些文字中勾勒出一个真正的你？

The Main Essay: 500(ish) words

主要内容：500词左右

Option A: Tell us about an experience which, at the time, really felt like “the end of the world”— but had it not happened, you would not be who you are today. Describe the process through which you discovered value in the negative.

选项A：告诉我们当你真正感觉是“世界末日”的一个经历，但是如果这个事情不发生，你将不会成为现在的自己。描述那个让你在消极中发掘出价值的过程。

Option B: Describe the world you come from, for example your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations?

选项B ：描述你来自的那个世界，例如你的家庭，你参加的俱乐部，学校，社区，城市或者小镇。这个世界如何塑造了你的梦想和抱负？

I say “ish” because the 500 is more of a general guideline than a strict limit. 400 words is fine, and so is 550. Your goal here is to connect with your reader, and doing that in just a few paragraphs requires incredible openness. Vulnerability is something we’re taught from a young age to defend against because it makes us look weak; true communication throws those lessons right out the window. Don’t worry about being cliché, just focus on telling your story. If your essay conveys something deeply personal, then so what if one of the seven billion people (or millions of fiction books) in the world has addressed something similar? This essay prompt will ask you to discuss something in your life that helped to define who you are today. What experience would you be a completely different person without? What drives you, makes you tick?

我说“左右”因为500是一个大概的标准线而不是一个严格的界限。400词也是可以的，550也是。此时你的目标是与你的读者达成连结，并且，在仅仅几段话里完成这个目标需要不同寻常的坦率。我们通常被要求要克服使我们变得脆弱的弱点，但是真正有价值的对话则正好击中这些弱点。不要担心你的文章变成陈词滥调，你只需要专注于讲自己的故事就好。如果你的文章包含某些非常个人化的东西，那么这个世界上即使有七十亿人或者几百万的小说都在讲相似的事情又如何呢？文章提示要求你讨论一些在你的生活中定义了你之为今天的你的那些故事。没有什么经历，你不会成为现在的自己？是什么督促激励着你，又是什么让你为之记录呢？

The Short Answers: 250 words

简答题：250词

1: What do you do for fun? They actually want to know. Everybody needs time to decompress, but in college it becomes a necessary skill for surviving the 294872092384 things you’ll be juggling on campus. It can be something silly, like having ten minutes every day to just dance around in your room to N’SYNC; don’t try to impress them by saying that you watch the Feynman Lectures or read Gödel to relax. Unless you do… that’s cool too.

1、你平时做什么休闲娱乐？他们的确想知道。每个人都需要时间来减压，但是找乐子已经成为你在大学里无数事情中喘息存活的必备技能。它可以是一些看似很蠢的事情，例如从每天在你的房间里跳上十分钟舞，到变成超级艺人；不要试图通过告诉他们你看费曼的讲座或者阅读歌德来放松，除非你确实是这样……那么那样也很酷。

2: Which department or program appeals to you, and why? MIT does NOT have any quotas to fill, and the department you pick here doesn’t matter at all. It’s a great way to familiarize yourself with some new departments if you have no idea, and just as great a chance to showcase your research on a specific program if that’s something you've already done. They seriously are just curious about your academic interests.

2、哪个院系或者项目最吸引你，为什么？MIT没有任何规定好的配额需要填满，并且你在此选择的院系没有任何关系。如果你没有想法，这是一个让你熟悉院系的一个绝好的方式，并且是一个显示你对某个特定项目了解研究的绝佳机会，当然如果你已经做好了的话。他们真的只是对你的学术兴趣比较好奇。

Optional: Show/tell them about something you've created. Doesn’t hurt you at all to leave this one blank!

选答：告诉或者展示他们一些你发明创造的东西。如果这栏空着也没有任何关系！

In the end, what matters is that you be yourself. Admissions officers are experts at sniffing out fakers, and MIT in particular is looking for applicants to really make it personal. As hard as it is to do with a few hundred words, your job is to let your reader climb inside your mind, have a good look around, and leave feeling as if they understand what motivates you and makes you tick. Great things to mention:

最后，最关键的问题是，一定要做你自己。录取官能灵敏地察觉你是否作假，并且，MIT尤其喜欢个性化的申请。和在几百字内展现自己同样困难的是，你的工作是让你的读者钻进你的思想，好好转一圈，并且让他们留下这样的感觉，他们的确理解是什么激励你，是什么让你为之记录。一些需要提醒的是，你尽可以提及：

experiences that challenged you in unexpected ways (and what you learned from those challenges)

creative ways you tackled a situation

any project or idea that made you jump out of bed in the morning to work on

a significant role model or mentor in your life, why you admire them, and how they've impacted your view of the world

-那些出其不意挑战你的经历（和你从中学到了什么）

-那些你处理事情的极具创造力的方式

-任何让你早上从床上跳起来去实践的项目或者想法

-一个重要的角色或者人生导师，为什么你敬仰他们，他们是如何影响你的世界观的

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