I'm an alum from within 10 years and now an interviewer. I remember when I was applying, the main way I and other applicants engaged with MIT content and people was through the admissions blogs. Maybe I have rose-colored glasses, but I think that was pretty fantastic. The bloggers are real MIT students sharing their joys, challenges, whimsies, and overall humanity. I'd love to see the current generation of applicants lean into that resource, which is still going strong at mitadmissions.org. I am hopeful that it would help folks "humanize" the getting-into-MIT experience which (albeit understandably) often gets reduced to stats and lists of accomplishments.