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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  environments. To be clear, this isn't a specific pairing or set of narratives we ... me, specifically, to write her letter, as well as a list of which ones ... —  during the pandemic, and after it —  is to just focus on who can write best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  broken cd or the pattern of an oil spill, I ultimately decided to use as ... is, in fact, hard to do everything yourself. Although I gained a lot of ... the spirit of learning how to delegate tasks better. For this spread

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  is the link to a mini-guide to CPW with advice on packing, planning ... energy is amazing. CPW is a special time of the year for everyone on campus ... , let’s say College N. At CPW, I struggled to decide which of the many

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  Organization (PPO) which has formal links to a selection of medical specialists ... Extended Plan. Or, if you are on just the Basic Plan, they need to send your ... with major surgery is like watching an avalanche on one of Saturn’s moons

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  meeting. Which was about 2 hours of me rewinding the video to catch up on a ... components. On top of the base, there is a moon which is a sphere, so that was ... lack the qualifications to do. There is also a form of modeling called

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ). A one-day-old baby cockroach, which is about the size of a speck of ... going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... else in my boot. I was quite certain of that. But I still needed to check

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  , to President Reif stopped by at one point or another to check up on our ... number of times that I had to tell people that there were 18,000 pieces or ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  white (which is harder to see here just cause of the lighting), and ... bit hard to drink from. The cup on the left is one I'm proud of! The ... that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... between five to eight hours on every problem set or paper, and a little more ... possible? I made my way to the central lounge on my floor with a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  ] Getting on the ice wasn’t easy; I was too embarrassed to use one of the ... those few days when I’d wake up to frosty dewdrops on the grass at home ... 'famline' structures. hackmit, the club i used to run, had our own set of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  !" or "'I don't like sand' is just too great of a piece of dialogue to ... must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... . Given a chance, students often will combine two or more of these hobbies ... and knowledge of electronics came together several years ago to create a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  some sort of plan on what you want to take, but that is not at all ... thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman Essay Evaluation (FEE) or which pre-orientation program to take

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , like 80 F, or 27 C, which is standard in Tucson for most of the year. But ... return is so lovely.   The pros of biking: exercise! I went to ... the draw of being able to chill out on the commute, rather than being

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... course, the grade changes to I/X, where X is the official grade which ... entire grade) and get a final grade based on that, or choose to get an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to ... Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  is an admittance of being afraid to trust the author… anyway watching ... "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... to occupy myself with.  my friend Espen S. ‘27 invents a lot of games

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024