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• Blog / Admissions

  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 ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better

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

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine. (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  very well or talk to him very often. time passes. frosh fall was when i really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• 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 ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... "]GTL[/annotation] applications rolled around, I waxed poetic about my desire to witness a real

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so depending on how many dances you elect to do, you have between 1 and 6 hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... very hungry and walking to the cafeteria. Suddenly, I was struck by ... , right? I immediately decided it was too difficult a task to actually

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... Florida teaching L'Hopital's Rule to confused high school juniors and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... few leftover undergrad requirements. I still plan to graduate with my ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these ... this semester to convince myself that quantum physics is real. 6.2410 is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed by dismay to many people. I tell them "Yeah I feel like it's been such ... time like this? I was only really able to process everything and anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead, I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008