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  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... also a good time to tell them about why you're applying to each school ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks ... time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  , after I stupidly slipped up and tried to add him as a friend again on ... . Assuming a new identity, almost hiding in plain sight with every costume I put on. But every flight home was a stutter in the movie, a break in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... . You rose closer with the sun today, shivered on the way to lab, the ... machine to measure the distance between the two. The void reduces to a

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

  International Selection Day 2

  

  closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe had a quick item about stress and the college admissions process... I ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... start on Wednesday. (I'm still kidding! Oh man, I'm a terrible daughter ... ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  're here. When you stroll down the Infinite on your way to class with a ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is a little harder for your situation. You may be overwhelmed thinking ... problem-solvers receiving a hands-on education that provides opportunities

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  Council on Education estimates 75,000 to 100,000 college students in the New ... have spoken to some of the incoming students from affected areas. A ... remain. I also saw a freshman for New Orleans. The mall that he did his pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  on a gravel footpath between the station and my office. I have to get ... /full when you need to borrow/return a bike respectively. MIT also has an ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... , with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank. Thus the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back ... myself for saying this when I have a kid later on, and have to make all ... starts to scream and you think, I'm gonna go Sparta on that kid and kick

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  enhancing acoustic quality. 4.502: Design Scripting. A new class, this one is ... . This is a weekly nighttime graduate seminar on 'Responsive Cities' which ... No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... ) arrived, we moved on to a second spot by the pier, and set up again. I saw ... the afternoon, we parked on a quiet residential street to do some land

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... myself to New York Magazine during my breaks. Also, here I get an amazing ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  laptop were painted to form a beautiful landscape!  We touched on the ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... my room both attempting to iron stuff on a chair,[annotation note ... the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go ... , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... ! I eat about 10 meals a week on campus -- that is, breakfast and lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006