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

  

  ) -- 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 ... still have them write you a recommendation. They can write in their native

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

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  when the meeting in your area is. CPW Registration. You can now register ... : Class of 2011 Guestbook. Sign in, learn about your classmates, post a ... students admitted to the Class of 2011, as soon as tomorrow night (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... of things off my proverbial plate."]Awhile ago,[/annotation] I got an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  links in my posts about the dorm. So yeah, I'm working on it, guys. In ... will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... : I very much liked how they integrated string instruments into their

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  the same reaction: "Wow, you're from MIT? I'm sure you can handle ... coolest show ever? Can you imagine yourself becoming a cardio-thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... who used to be in our shoes so many years ago!  I just kept thinking how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in ... tent in the dark, did some reading (I'm most of the way through this) and ... 're actually doing okay; I dumped them in the bathtub when I got home. Definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another school representative to be considered official. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your school does not…
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  -Chairs --- Feel free to drop a comment if you’ll be partaking in these events, I ... Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events ... students interested in MIT and all the science and engineering that happens

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be enjoying my first day off in quite awhile, and my blogging should return ... being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  screen, you can tell that it'll be memorable. Now if you were to take a guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee ... through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "That is an interesting question. "First, I believe in managing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG...CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren't you super excited?!?!? I ... current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don ... 't gotten back to him/her yet, do so ASAP so you can work out living

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  campus, where I developed a module for automatic query expansion based on ... I've mentally partitioned my time here into "eras" with defining ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011