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

  

  ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... write you a recommendation. They can write in their native language; the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , because I forgot the mat in Connecticut a screwdriver with many many ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... will come to MIT to study, I look forward to seeing many of you at CPW in ... are the global leaders in the near future. One thing that I am certain

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  cognitive framework within which we can reason about events and states in the ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking. (I stuck

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I ... instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a ... bunch of folds to run overnight, and went home. I got into the office in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  about change and how I've grown and other such profound things, since I ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  P.S.—Check out the Booklet!

  

  I forgot to mention that America in the World: MIT Speaks has been published! You can check it out at http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/FAP%20Booklet.pdf.

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own ... sustainable living from iHouse, because in our neck of the woods having fun ... The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... feel free to post your interpretations in the comments. I would highly ... members. However, I suppose you could try it and see how they respond. Tip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  's something that I see even in the very walls of MIT. I know more people here ... , I know I'm in the same boat, because I didn't become a super-genius overnight, let alone at all. In honor of my 19th birthday (today!), I've been

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake ... Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  . MIT forced me to figure out, early in my undergrad career, how I should ... In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Whew, I’m exhausted even thinking about it! In all seriousness, this IAP I will be... - Working on my UROP in the BioInstrumentation Lab ... (it’s like OpenCourseWare but for lab work. I’ll be blogging about it in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... my own changes (I put cranberries in the cheese gougeries because I had

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been ... with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer ... on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been ... aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it ... on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008