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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Admissions; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Room 3-108; 77 Massachusetts ... 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 / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  science aspect of my degree altogether and dedicated myself to sociology ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions outside of their home state.  Planning the 5 stop college fair was a ... institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... of Wyoming. I was thrilled to join the planning team and attend the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  student here: $300 per day. (Big clarification–MIT offers one of the most ... [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a lackadaisical pace, gazing around at the trappings of academia and stopping to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  emerging areas of engineering and technology."]NEET[/annotation], and had a ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  . It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a ... engineering professor, had rediscovered ancient Death Ray technology. In 212 B

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two weeks before it opened. I suppose as a member of the MIT community and a ... entry stairway, offer visitors space to mingle. A scene from URT

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... long weeks, no. We do have lives outside of the Institute, you know. ^_^ ... of its regular denizens (Hi, Nance. You too, Ben.) I was asked why my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall ... close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video ... The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  ;body corporate by the name of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (as ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012