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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but do happen with some frequency abroad). Instead, ask another teacher ... who is your mentor. Also -- you do not need to choose the teacher that

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

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  ?!?!?! Where have you been? D: LOL. I’m doing well. Super busy, but I’m okay. Q ... sure that you will do well academically wherever you choose to attend ... ’m trying to help them out too, you know? Q: I get that Danielle. I really do

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... /deferral years) We will then ask you to write us and tell us what you plan to do ... in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up ... Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  just run-of-the-mill icky like I do right now), you can head yourself on ... is never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot of people do it. 2. Charlotte asked, Haha...so who's most stressed out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... deadline nearing I thought I’d add my two cents. Disclaimer: I do not work in ... (after writing) to step away from your essays. You can’t do this if you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  do. And often, I have to remind myself that things like this are easier ... I didn’t know how to do half of them. There were days I got three S^3 ... week than I ever would have done doing homework. Between sailing and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having ... home and to try and do anything but schoolwork. The rain was pouring ... about what I needed to do next for my physical and mental health. Nearly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... -classroom model, where we were expected to do readings outside of class and then ... studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  everyone has to do field work, I’ve really enjoyed getting to go camping and ... Most course 12s also do [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as a student and/or community member." At MIT, we do have strong ... social science instructor —  but we do not have strong priors about ... thing you can do is just tell us, in the additional information section

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] every piece of red text is something I am doing later than I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  what I’ve been trained to do. Every time I wanted to take a hard science ... , you do not know calculus. You should not take physics C.” And I would ... tried to cancel out the d’s in dy/dx as one would do with fractions. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake ... taking this, because I was going to do SuperUROP instead, but since I ... REALLY hate public speaking - as do most people - but honestly, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  and incoherent crap at the foot of the reader. In doing so, a tiny part ... (partial, incomplete, revelatory) catalog of things I've been doing recently ... , which we do every year to introduce new staff (and refresh returning staff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... -ups and spare parts all over the floor? Some do. Others are less techy and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  don't want to watch the video I do want to write a little bit more about ... concepts, but I do feel that even if you hadn't taken AP chem you would not ... campus I can definitely do a blog post on that too! When it comes to just

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  and not doing many student-life related things because of the time ... -Adjusted College Student. I was doing standard freshman things and standard ... were constantly doing things to be sensational. It was a lot of fun, but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  classes and doing actual problem sets and making actual friends (really ... handle on what that means now. I haven't pulled an all-nighter yet to do ... AM to do my 5.111 pset the night before it was due. If I had to impart

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014