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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

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

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... juice in a week and a half. I haven’t really slept in a while. Mom: Sleep ... . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... through every single aisle and getting our bearings, we decided to start ... . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I ... back in 2016. Back then I didn’t have the background knowledge to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... : during CPW and during REX. It's a great time to really get to know more ... 'm excited to get more involved with MIT's queer community. So far, I've felt

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In ... , getting around in the rain safely and protecting your wheelchair from short ... Floe, not as a product to get rid of ice dams, but to create channels

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  in the dark and tried to map out all the stars I couldn’t see from ... appeal of biting into apples, I thought to myself, after indulging in my ... we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more ... same room, to untimed, open-book, take in a 24-hour period, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  to help me get food in the cafe. So, I'll be fine. In any case, it ... like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... , voted overwhelmingly to strike 'in solidarity with the national university ... Concert. Once again, the MIT radio station was able to patch in (and archive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel ... of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place ... that this school saw in me. Even moreso to be able to share my adventures

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the ... Delivery in Spring 2020. Due to the pandemic, Ring Delivery got pushed back a ... the new Brass Rat design. I went to the Class of 2022 Ring Premiere in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  have had MAJOR syllabi changes(going from ICSE to CBSE in the middle of ... against me?" In regard to your first question: these things are an ... representative to [my school] in the near future?" The first thing you need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the ... result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... freaking cool, we were able to get it rescheduled for this fall. It's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006