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Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.
. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation -
Blog / Life after MIT
A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…
Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to -
Blog / Admissions
Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report
science, technology, and other areas of scholarship for the betterment of ... Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think -
Blog / MIT Life
Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.
No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually, I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while -
Blog / Advice
Exploring Classes a guide
a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose ... " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... at MIT, and it lets you plan out your classes over a longer period of -
Blog / Personal Travel
A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)
streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be -
Blog / Academics & Research
Why It Pays…
meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top -
Blog / Classes
6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far
particular technology. When he says "palette of tools and techniques," I think ... I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I ... of being difficult, but 6.115 hit the rare sweet spot of being -
Blog / Community Projects
MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity
the additional component of technology. Instead of traditional ... of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with -
Blog / Admissions
The Ides of March
University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young ... reception, I stood as a representative of the first university to get ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel -
Blog / Classes
Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good
/change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... activist collective out of Latin America. How do we use data and technology ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while -
Blog / Events
150. We're in the news!
Technology) events, snapping pictures of different installations and checking ... rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year -
Blog / How to Human
Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.
, innovation, and all of science and technology. When the staffer in charge of ... , universities (including MIT and Harvard) and teaching hospitals. 1/5 of Nobel ... . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!
, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene
few hours, woke up, rolled out of bed, splashed my face with cold water ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards the end of the panel, I introduced myself and asked them what they felt -
Blog / MIT Life
My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.
My sophomore fall I took an STS (science, technology, and society) writing class with Sherry Turkle, STS.043 (Technology and Self: Science, Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here -
Blog / Academics & Research
In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!
program associated with the University of Grenoble. It sounds really fun ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms -
Blog / Life after MIT
What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…
My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted