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  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... best time on the New York Times crossword puzzle, the chemistry teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  summer, though natives say it's not even as bad as boston or new york ... there. being in new york city for a week before school was a slap in the ... missed. i'm living in a cozy single at the end of the hall. i'm genuinely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing ... nearly-2000 year old piece of wood, and a three-level gift shop at the ... is worth two and a half hours of waiting) a colorful look at Dylan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... world, including (but not limited to): investment banks in New York City ... Phil asked, "oh btw Melis, would u equally prefer working at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  you're following the storm from home, I highly recommend the New York ... ;   One final note: for those of you who already have students here at ... I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... .” With the exception of another friend actually from New Jersey, people ate ... more days, location tagging more pictures of random New Jersey foliage as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University ... at the start of my junior fall, I upgraded to a new A6 scooter ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular ... The Planets suite. While the orchestra played, Spock sat at the front of ... ’s chair at the front of the stage was right next to the conductor, so that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Athenians! Two hundred at least by Aeschylus, Sophocles ... enrolled in it. (I'd like to casually mention that Old English was offered at ... you a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe? JRR Tolkien studied Old

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  . Seriously, there's this one recording of Ives "improvising" at the piano, in ... at the piece and found that each of the four parts was set almost ... wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... different culture around sprinklers. At least most of us do -- the fenced

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Taekwondo, I once went to a tournament at the University of Vermont, which is ... I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours ... of one of the athletics buildings.That night we stayed at the Marriott ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... 't make sense to major in, say, Literature, at MIT (which I sort of agree ... HASS requirement. How many different languages are offered at MIT? 9

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a summer of growth.  Internship Most of my summer was spent working as a ... This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... at least the 1960s – gives me confidence that we have not offered a ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012