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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

  

  have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... environments. To be clear, this isn't a specific pairing or set of narratives we

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

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know ... , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life ... Harvard Bridge to have dinner in Boston, and a trip to Star Market for ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... description: “A one week long project held in Xiamen, Fujian, where a team of ... about it from a random e-mail (probably sent to all of the dorm mailing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... the Welcome Center a good front door to the Institute. In order to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better ... , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I ... away, past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  almost everything moved and decided to call it a day. All that's left is ... computers for a while (and listening to Blast! at a volume that probably have ... , I got a text from Jordan inviting me to an EMT barbecue over at East

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my ... to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I ... nature’s own canvas, but it is a sad fact that you must accept. To do well

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  from the party, enjoy! I even got to go on a ride ... This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the East Side and prefrosh (now frosh!?!?)  from all around MIT came to see

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  several reasons, such as: I was too busy with classes to spend a day at ... ”."]RMV[/annotation] dealing with the paperwork. Massachusetts requires you to use a friend ... school to use their car for the road test. A US license (with REAL ID) also

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different ... JSF was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We were exposed to a side of ... experience. To give you a sense of what it was like, I'm going to share some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  night after a chapter meeting, they decided they were going to mark the ... Lambda Alpha Chi, the pledges, to repaint it. What started as a funny ... industry and developed a super sick formula to trade derivatives in foreign

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  headed off to Urgent Care, where - at this point, I was pretty woozy, but I remember giving them my name and symptoms and they told me to take a seat and ... drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at ... /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... carrying dirty laundry. I couldn’t run off to Boston at a moment's notice. I ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  d'etres. (Oh god, don't know French, don't know where to add the ... as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school ... conveniently located next to the floor closet. And Carenina '03, a senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... was a mechanism to release all the flavour at once. Once again, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of ... exclaimed, "Hey! You write a blog, don't you?" I was quite surprised to hear ... , here's a shout out to the Lego Lab for being cool enough to work with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005