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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  , here's my proposal: At the very least, I post this here to give you a glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... one that you may find helpful is an English teacher at your high school

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

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the ... my Independence day plans at 7:30 pm on July 3rd. Someone once told me ... ‚Üí people's hands ‚Üí hot dog. At 7:00 pm: Mattress inflated- check

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  polo match, at which we featured music from "Jaws".</p> < ... colorguard now!</p> <p>At least, so I hear. I, unfortunately, have ... info, give an email to the officers at marching_at_mit_dot_edu, or show

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... , spackle, and paint. At this point we only have drywall. 2) Our TV is ... ALL the floors, not just Conner 3. At the end of the evening, freshmen

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  attempt at helping you understand what laptops frequent campus and which you ... , then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it ... discourage purchasing a Macbook air at this point. It's VERY expensive and not

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other schools may all know what they're doing, where their classes are, and at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For anyone who might read this that is not familiar, I am applying at the end ... conducted research in physics at Washington University through a program that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... (George Orwell) -- This was $2.50 at the Harvard Bookstore used, so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  ” are written as instructions addressed to me, not to the world at large ... courtyard of the house my family was living in at the time. Extremely fun. My ... , and at the opposite end, a few steps rose up to a small sort of stage

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... and upside down and mirrored, all at once; but more importantly, I still ... . At MIT, it’s not enough to be vaguely smart. It turns out you have to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... be able to honestly say that, but I will at the very least try very ... overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  'm so very excited. In the meantime, I’m at home, where apart from the ... stretch of road at dusk.  I love being here but over time I feel trapped ... College X. I scoffed at those; I may have sold my soul to the [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ’t mention how physics believed light to work at the time, didn’t explain ideas ... Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything which I’ve read at least ... and how science has interacted with the world-at-large, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  former classmate. He graduated last year (as the ‘17 suggests). When at MIT ... House ideas didn’t pan out, but Hassan’s sophomore summer, he interned at ... to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... useful it was for my UROP supervisor, a masters student at the media lab. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  help you right now and can be reached at [email]. Dean Nelson and I are also here for you if you want to talk about the future at any point over ... pantry, or for late-night meals at a new café in Walker Memorial, opening

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... schools (at the elementary and middle school levels as well) on the richer ... "poorer" cousins at the elementary and middle school levels, and was all set

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  , and urban food deserts. At MIT, I hope to collaborate with others to ... philosophy classes at community college through dual enrollment, I read a lot ... think I wanted to have at least one of my main essays relate to urban

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  performed live, interspersed among acting scenes, I marveled at the commenters’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... . When my attempts at conversation are warped by a desire for relatability

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025