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

  

  -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... who has taught you in an academic class in high school (i.e. no middle ... process is the same in this case. I get many questions about what subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... better picture of who you are, how you are in the classroom, how you think, how you relate to peers and teachers. Then, I read the secondary school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six ... , considering how much I cook/how stupid I am sometimes. I built a snowman on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  see him play. I had taught DeRon Artificial Intelligence in 6.034 when ... that would make! Always moving forward. I must find someone who can ... get a job in the NFL.' He's a computer programmer who's saying, 'I need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  , ironically, curious about politics and history and how LCDs work. I didn ... decided that I didn't want to play the HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU USE THE WORD CURIOUS IN A BLOG POST? game) I will write up an explanation below. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  clarinet in the MIT Wind Ensemble. I did not play the bass clarinet before ... about that) Greek life (I’ve been in a sorority for all four years and ... abroad/travel with classes) being a teaching assistant (in which i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... resident of Tetazoo, where dirt and grime were constant companions, I would ... year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first(I ... our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It ... it. Last year, some friends and I celebrated July 4th by barbecuing at

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of ... really to come and talk to us in person, as iHouse is just too diverse and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  in a 40 mph headwind. As a sprinter, I thought there was nothing worse ... Computer Science) and I were upset). When the bus was packed in the morning ... joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  all these cool places, but I vowed that I would take some time during my ... simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  I'm in Boston until the end of next week for some meetings for the ... , when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free concerts? Tomorrow, a local radio station here in Boston is sponsoring a free

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... i couldn't make it in 2020 for some reason i don't remember. in fact

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... loops embedded in media properties. Who would have predicted that a bunch

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... in his class. Needless to say things got different when I got to MIT ... think it really struck me that physics was hard when I got this problem in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  other people say, 'I've felt that way, too.' " In some ways impostor ... Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... . In the morning, I was woken by a harrowing newscaster voice on the ... ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  this decision personally: if I have learned anything in this job, it is ... ;decisions.mit.edu      <<< You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... democratic leader? Am I nothing more than a hypocrite who would be in the ... finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025