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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  the trip upstairs to the admissions officers. When we get them, the ... of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions Officers get locked in a dungeon and cannot come out until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... - Get Set Go Self Defense Where the Hell is Matt? Pulp Fiction in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a Truck", "How to Build a Food Truck", "Food Truck Economics", "Social Media

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  sophomores do when we get stuck on chemistry pset problems, and help in the ... compound reactions or how to build rockets - and we want everyone else to be ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the ... which books to use, but how to find other equally awesome books, journals ... , introductory paper to the major collosal paper due in December, just like four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... I want to eat at that exact moment. And I love it. In preparation for ... Oats These seem to be getting really popular lately? I feel like you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  ;)[/caption] We're still in Q-week, which means we're supposed to stay inside ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be ... window. The first time we dragged our suitcases to our room in Next, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  , and even attempted to get in on magnificent Black Friday deals, but ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... , created in an attempt to win dinner with the renowned Professor Eric Lander

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... into wedges. There’s a body of mathematical work about how to fairly cut ... didn’t end up being that nerdy, and it was cut in nice, sensible, easy-to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my ... them. This was when I was still beginning to get more involved in floor ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  worry as you guys do. Getting into graduate school in biology is not, in fact, all that hard; it's a lot harder to get into law school or medical school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Florey know how to celebrate in style. *grin* ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged ... I did get to spend the other half pondering my project and customizing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank ... arms when he gets to campus! Interview with Hank We had some questions ... a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... in bed, wanting to take a nap even if i feel well-rested. i've started ... senioritis in non-schoolwork things too. i don't feel like going to many of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s joy in challenge, in starting out having absolutely no idea how to begin ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013