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

  

  best time on the New York Times crossword puzzle, the chemistry teacher ... Naviance, teachers should see MIT on the list of colleges to which these ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

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

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Are you interested in any of: making governments work better ... consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), MIT hosted the inaugural "Taste of SHASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  speech on the intricacy of Windows* and read this book to learn more. Me ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... the work to date. Script Kiddie 101 The primary portion of this

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  into a mosh pit and put a friend on my shoulders as one of my roommates danced on stage. Daniel Powter Concert - While all of his songs all sound ... , Shakespeare on the Common performed a modern rendition of Taming of the Shrew.

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college ... they don't match up to the scores of the people on College Confidential

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New ... , direct them to Daniel, MIT's Director of Financial Aid.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit ... behemoth of a homework assignment for 6.867 and trying to catch up on my late ... 'm writing the first draft of this blog post on the tail end of an all

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  A couple weeks ago, Mitra commented on her CI-M (Communications Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  record, I can't believe what an incredible group of people you are, both academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  lounge on Tuesday from 8-10 pm for the season finale of veronica mars. Not ... 's room and then spreads a video of them around on the Internet. And at ... 's working on a "1/32 model of an amphibious regional turbo prop." It looks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve, most of my First East floormates disappeared, their tiny suitcases rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students ... -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13 ... Andrew Carlson '12. In the comments on Engadget, Russell said, "We did this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  is a definitive end, and a specific course of understanding. Here on ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP, here's an example of a cool project: "Sociable Robot Applications ... help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005