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

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior ... opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term ... exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... chance to staff BosMUN. Chairing aside, positions were primarily needed for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  this one, however, we were using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tools to ... Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... for those who needed it to receive it. Luckily, there were also friends

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this: you should probably not expect to marry the person you broke the ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox

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

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the panels. but i made it to the opening panel. here are some very incomplete

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... were literally quite impossible to do, with my limited orgo knowledge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... before the pop-up, I got an email telling me I had been selected to attend

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure [caption id="" align="alignright" width="500 ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union, and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

    6.006(6.1210): Introduction to Algorithms  21W.771: Advanced Poetry ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... were going to meet along Mass Ave. I arrived at Mass Ave shortly before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

   Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... turned out, I didn’t need to because I was recently assigned to join the Pi

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a fun exercise, I decided to go back to my freshman year bio and annotate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021