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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... common app so they got the notification. She also got to me really far in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  Today: "10 great places to bite into a big burrito" - Anna's Tacqueria, in ... how his son learned to speak, available here: MotherBoard: "Carlos ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  fundamentally different approaches to how ingredients should be treated, but in ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... that later."]nourishment?[/annotation] Perhaps in response to this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... because I realized how far behind I was from everyone else. Now, I get a ...  The Tech and trying to get some articles done to gain more experience and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  believes in my ability to improve, despite my chronic inability to focus on ... MIT students to work/teach/study in other countries ... Marla to be fixed. In just one and a half hours, and for just $64, I came

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  companies might in some cases have an obligation to experiment on their users ... people in civic that i work with, around, and next to. they are my honest-to ... in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... the neuroscience department, so in this case 6 and 9 both refer to ... certain if I have ever heard it referred to in words. People say ".009" or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this ... Jaekyung listening to comedy programs in six different languages (as rated by ... joke. In the bottom left screen, Jaekyung listens and reacts to a Korean

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  times closer to the black hole than previously thought; they see in better ... ; and they could use this information as a new technique to measure black ... nice local laboratory to study the formation of and conditions in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth ... me that every scientist should know German in order to be able to read ... told me to hand in my resume, cover letters, and faculty recommendations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production—it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

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

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... how much I wanted to come here! - and now I'm here, and it's been two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  building things in East Campus to leading dorms tours to Meet the Bloggers to ... liveblog to share. Me with our new dean of admissions, Stu Schmill. Matt Mc ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer ... [annotation note="I'll write about them in a separate blog post :)"]new books ... change in focus. I'm hoping to at least submit it for publication, if not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... left except to speedrun most of my second major in one semester. Maybe if

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022