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  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  website: "Air in the engine is cyclically heated (by an alcohol burner) and ... they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  secondary school (for example, an O Level teacher). In extreme circumstances ... certainly ask a teacher who has taught you in an academic class in high school ... -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write their own letter and not answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  exam when it's fresh in your mind. For some exams, AP credit isn't given ... [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... asked in an advising survey whether or not my freshman year "met my expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  . Membership is free for all MIT students who have taken an appropriate class ... ! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18 ... open space signifies an abundance of opportunities. The Charles River

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  in The Matrix): (Click on either photo for a zoomed-in view) ... just prior to an annual event we call the Sodium Drop (I'll leave the details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... serious reading. In the meantime, we'll contnue with our other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  freshman year of high school, I was in an on again off again relationship ... moment where he was not in my life. But at the same time, he was an anchor ... holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find ... with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the ... -- plus 18) to change the policy. :-P (For Karen, below: A legacy is an ... I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in ... with students taking an active part in the discussion. I'll try to note ... : 1. In order, what were the five most popular home states for admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  have to work for them. This observation was prompted by the fact that sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... was the first semester for many things for me. Yesterday, I had the

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... lacks in those departments it more than makes up for in its gameplay ... consistent draw? Should I trade half my health in this event for some powerful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ."]multi-instrumentalist[/annotation]/educator known for basically being a modern-day Mozart. That is to say, he’s an ... person who led the effort for him to come to MIT! The residency ended in a ... 's Media Lab, to design equipment for his live performances. Yo-Yo lives in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  to feed my brain. I requested an absentee ballot for the primaries in ... find it in my backpack less than an hour later. Great news! My PI is ... photo so that people can search for them. The pictures in this post come

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  contributes for a covenant that goes deeper than just living there."]an ... was written by Mark Adamo in the early 2000s as an adaptation of the ... Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  something in our lives we should be grateful for. So you know what would be ... anything especially special about the moment that you are in, but ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  college essays, i was applying for random scholarships in a desperate effort ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  something which would be used in my work as an engineer. 1.00 (Introduction ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I ... class holds in store for us, but I do feel like I could go out into the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011