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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  want to use the Common App's paper recommendation form. It is also okay ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... ongoing relationship. You can choose a teacher who has retired or moved to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... 's start off with a quick biology question:Q: What's the best way to entice ... hate them because you have to put up with them until they become useful

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It’s ... especially at this time of life, it would be harder to be intellectually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... means that I am writing entries about what it's like to be an MIT student ... it by taking the Turnpike, then you have every right to think so. But I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  Research using per-mile sponsorship.     I’m blessed to have ... your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at ... possible to ‘solo’ something, engaging others is fun and can usually be more

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... spray to help it release and I dipped the balloons multiple times to get a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  can end up learning some useful techniques. To be honest, I don ... Linguistics Group, a group that uses large-scale corpus studies to discover ... so far. (You can make the image bigger by clicking on it) There are

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... encourages midshipmen to participate in on- and off-campus activities. It is ... training can come from applying the skills learned in ROTC to other

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  it when people use my blog to connect and make friendships around the ... , can I use it for both? ;) Why is sec. 15 - affirmation of accuracy under ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  . I was pretty new to this skill, but it's honestly a quick learn ... figure out what its function was and how it matched to the Nano. I made sure to build a quick little prototype that verified this would function

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the ... Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  last time, although forgetting to ask for names in a Google Form isn’t a ... current job market). It was really nice to meet so many people with ... clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... . Unfortunately, there is none. You can certainly can try to help your chances. You ... ! Yale! MIT! Fortunately, you can pause the game during the summer. It’s

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  from FSILGS. Download it and check it out! You can also use whereis.mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore ... filled with hundreds of other prefrosh just like you, so it'd be a shame to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  transformative experience? Yes. Did I grow up? Yes. But it was too quick. I wasn't equipped to deal with that many support services. I knew it was best to go on ... ending. I couldn’t write it until I had one because it was too painful to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  're looking forward to it too. :D May 2nd can't come soon enough! ... calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  , we can all be reminded that sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us ... distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That ... antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  room is good for doing work. You can hear a pen drop. And it's pretty ... know the adults that work here, so it's wierd for me to do it. But there ... which books to use, but how to find other equally awesome books, journals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  was alive to witness it. And the current fear, anxiety, and uncertainty ... 2020 might as well have been October 2001 – wasn’t it just going to be as ... optimism; I was going to put it on hold for 3 months and reassess how to move

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020