I wrote about how my love of reading shaped my life, and how I didn't have time for it in high school but it came back to me during summers.

We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it. (*)(100 words or fewer) I twist bridges into biology and choruses into chemistry. In writing science parodies of songs, I probe the "humerus" sides of science, English, and music. Replacing "my heart was paralyzed; my head was oversized" with "my flask was sterilized; my laser atomized" turns yet another breakup song by Train...

Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (*) (100 words or fewer) My phone ringing. The tang of burned popcorn in my mouth. The itchy mosquito bite on my ankle. Millions of pieces of information hit me every second, but my brain weeds out the extraneous data so that I can focus on the important things. The three-pound organ that many compare to a supercomputer amazes...

Smart, hard-working,...

Undergraduate...

Internships, research,...

Answer and ask...

Restaurants, concerts, centrality...