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

  

  . Please note that there is no online recommendation system for MIT ... forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... , and how you see yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find

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

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  ago and stands for Independent Awesome Period (not really, but it might ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT ... which we revealed embarassing personal secrets such as Trevor's love for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  decisions will be made available online for RA '06, but we are working on it ... I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... either by courier mail or online? This is because the problem comes not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I ... night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life. At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  emojis in the [annotation note='Campus Preview Weekend, but online during ... know for sure.    But one thing I did know for sure was that if I ... around MIT!  So I thought I’d ask people for recommendations and try as

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  that was the United States. As a chronically online Gen Z-er, I’d already consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... day for almost a year now. (Freshman fall was a different, more virtuous time.) Because semesters are very sedentary for us, we have been making

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the ... except for one– glow in a certain sequence: the singular purple bulb ... for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  Sherlock (you have trained your oculomotor nerves for this purpose.) It ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... red B icon means - but a quick glance down reveals that wheoever they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town ... Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  Annual Fall Fashion Free-For-All, an event where MIT undergraduates can come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves ... opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a ... people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  get ready for the next day. My head hits the pillow around 1am. Houston ... free time. Since all of my meetings have been canceled for the weekend ... 's trying to fly out of the city. I quickly check in, and the kiosk tells me

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , comes from repetitive motion (like typing). For me it shows up as pain in ... off for years, sometimes better, sometimes worse. I think it was worse ... myself, why are you stressed? For the first month or so, it just hurt. But

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  that the freedoms and privileges that I enjoy today were fought for and ... news channels for the sake of our mental health, and seek some form of ... the internet has fueled online debates driven by anonymous MIT students

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  ” is this:   2nd photo on Google Images   But for me, inline ... until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads ... mind, hitting a sidewalk crack and falling straight to my knees. I put

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  blogged about judging Trashion last year, and, for some reason, the ... Venkataraman, who directs global policy initiatives for the Broad Institute and ... -use than make a Trashion piece? Make sure to look out for parts of her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of ... it. i mean, sure, i went to acting school for four years, but i ... doing improv was a lot of fun, so i tried auditioning for a few groups

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  as either Pass (for what would be an [annotation note="yes, this means ... Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024