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  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  about it in the comments. The gist of it is that many FSILGs offer dining ... This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... , taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... much more! I joined because it offered me a chance to meet a variety of ... oversees seven of MIT's women's+ organizations. I've never gone through

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... building up of a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure ... Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  in it. It is certainly not the center of the universe.” -Joey Rafidi ... geniuses, most of us are struggling just as much you are. And, as much as I ... de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  full year of university before entering MIT as a transfer. I don't know ... outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25 ... come late for it? as in late friday night, all of sat and leave sunday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The ... conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  November? Is this the universe saying it's proud of me?" I still don ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that, even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  include: calculating the expansion rate of the universe, demonstrating the ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... squeezing past thousands - THOUSANDS - of middle- and high-school kids and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use ... list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will ... this video of Will (CubanCrescendo!) singing JJ Lin’s “我很想爱她”, recorded

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  the campus of Hebrew University that also includes business training and ... The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  "Columbia," "University of Maryland," or "Case Western Reserve." It's actually ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008