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• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  recommendation forms are available for download from your MyMIT application portal ... received and processed the letter on your MyMIT tracking page. Please allow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  top shall be my successor." The first monk, who was young, energetic ... . Then, turning to the crowd, he announced quietly: "I have found my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  -MIT environment (maybe this is my first ever experience with meeting alums outside ... courses you can explore =p) So yuppp. That's my month, more or less, in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  rather quickly) in the beginning, I decided that it was to my advantage to ... , my biggest rationale for not declaring sophomore standing during the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ways it’s even better than Drown." Yay. Then, much to my surprise, Junot ... immigrant-family sagas." and my favorite paragraph of the review: "Díaz has

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to ... so unbelievably scary that my camera would break if it focused on him

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• 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 ... gravitational waves back in 2015. Photon Antibunching This effect is, in my ... most compelling theory (in my opinion) is that pigeons can see magnetic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  assigned, running the CPW Closing Show is by far one of my favorites. As ... years, my main CPW responsibility has been running the CPW opening and ... the side wings. Here’s my view of MIT Bhangra’s performance from the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third ... connect it. I only have four vectors, so this next step will be my last one ... zonotope, we’ve also made a (fine) [annotation note="My spellcheck thinks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  number into the code and apologize to the little motor for my unwarranted ... floppy but it looks epic. My roommate Dora swings by and lends a hand. Tara ... set in and I can feel a warm blanket of drowsiness wrap around my tired

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... together and make my brain feel like it'd been filled with coarse sand? If ... : it was because my state school didn't have all of the things that made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  to today. My goal is to direct a show that gives both the actors and ... Susanna to create a cohesive final project with my vision ... -worldly floating heads. After adding some of my effects with the color of her vision

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  maybe my favorite class. It taught me to write more evocative and compelling poems, and get a better sense for what I want my poetry to be. For

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  to real work, so I made a little Twitter thread about my quest and ... that TDC is already present in 314 Memorial Drive at that time. My best

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , this was worse than all of Kristen’s and my finals weeks combined. Our ... ), where I drank to forget my problems and served the strained peach juice to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  then forgot it.. “Mom, have you seen my book bag?” “Mr. Concord—oh, pass ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  . Gabrielle Stoy (my 18.02 teacher) has agreed to sit down with me a few times a week during IAP and help cement my understanding. 14. In ESG, your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... hours and never finished my 8.07 problem set which was harder than I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008