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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

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

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a ... had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... uhh tl;dr;  freshman fall: took fewer classes, was able to write, ran a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  events led to me, a high-schooler, getting the opportunity to work in a ... up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup ... wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... directions is impressive, we are not actually impressed by the inability to ... to have complete information. I know some feel like it may be a hassle

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... Sarah and I always escaped to the park.  One year we made a daily pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  mission too. I hope you get a chance to see it soon.   ... included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee ... , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... work out at Stanford   h a c k e d   then stop by the Stupid

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  't get to write very much RIP. but Elena B. '28 my goat did a write-up of ... is SO CUTE so we're going to try get you guys some photos too. i ... adorned by the cutest rat hats (irl Ratatouille fr!). we just finished a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... years later, about to become a senior this fall. Of course, one can argue

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  Graduate - spend a summer in Boston. I don't think you'll ever really get to ... how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... cleaned the toilet once a week (although this was helped by the fact we were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  example, this pantoum, written by Heather '13— “Institvte” To learn ... for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality ... around campus trying to look for it and getting soaked.) That week's theme

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball ... . Finally, I went to Allison's and watched Sin City and as a result I can ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  to by Madeline as Part of Me. Part of Madeline looks like a goth ... convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... on it and maybe convince you to play it too. Celeste is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... machine to measure the distance between the two. The void reduces to a ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  question: "To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf! It's a really really really ... was anything to judge by, you might leave a little bewildered. Me: Ben ... 't have all day. - I'm a big believer in getting to know a living group

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  hilarious people. As Exhibit A of this theory, I'd like to present you with ... I wait a million years I'm not going to have very much junk." "This ... separating the variables to solve a problem. Needless to say, I was somewhat

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two hours? Four? Should I just leave and get a sandwich now?) I still don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... my schedule was a bit tricky is that I'm applying to the Course 2 ... seems like a perfect fit, and I look forward to analyzing Snow Fall or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... pressure (self-inflicted, to be fair) academically and a lot of difficulty ... I took a break to focus on college and adjusting. I then felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021