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

  

  you have given your teachers sufficient time to write on your behalf ... letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay ... , four friends and I drove to Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, which somehow ... to philosophy and consciousness.   The picture on the right is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• 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 ... 're willing to work with your individual circumstances, whatever they may be ... to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you're ... prefrosh are reading this, pls get your PE classes over with quickly so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  imagine what story you would tell to StoryCorps. Don’t exaggerate on your ... or ask too many people (especially strangers) to read through your ... essays to passive voice. The most important part is your distinctive voice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  process: you need to have ESP’s git repository installed on your laptop, as ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... question got pointed to the help desk pretty quick. A lot of students come

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  to experience Interphase EDGE/x, or live on Conner 2, or host an ad ... perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on ... Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... not human. ² To stop the coop on a dime would require absurdly ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They ... running shorts to make trying out the new shoes easier. I thought I would ... ran on the Marathon Sports treadmill. It's one thing to run on a machine

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... make time for new passions, Struggling to find ever-elusive balance; pj ... reminder to stop and smell the flowers, I’m living on cloud nine.

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to ... week, on Wednesday, March 14 at 6:28 PM Eastern Time. Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01 ... 't sure what method to use, by writing 2 answers on the paper, you actually ... on your side. Then again, I do feel my critical reading score was a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  virtual setting, especially considering that it's hard to bond with new people when your interaction is consigned to a closed Zoom room. Over the ... -years in particular to meet new people, so the show was a wonderful means of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... hang dry some things. Stop Leaving Lectures Confused. Edit: Go to Your ... to hold your hand through multiple examples. If you don't know that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  . If you don't want to take my word for it, comment with your must ... . If you're still worried, there are services available to help you succeed ... experiences. ^_^   4. How do I enroll? Log in to your myMIT account and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... . I'm tired just thinking about this. Moving on to....FEE results! The ... are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on ... to focus on. For example, my field of study is how education systems ... conditions. I'm focusing on experiential learning and ways to better prepare

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... you just called your friend a wuss. Now add "ter" to the end. Wuss ... . Snively Advice Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don't sound like a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the classes on [annotation note="my year is allowed take up to 4 classes of ... -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021