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

  

  away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every ... yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

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

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  , can you tell us any methods in planning classes for a double major ... (English Literature, Government, US History); for each 5 on a humanities AP ... Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  draw out the population as above, it’s actually possible for us to see ... , it’s impossible for us to exactly determine who these people are across ... awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... , including the third largest 4th of July fireworks in the U.S., the summer Arts ... The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  really lazy day for us! We all woke up around noon-ish, gazing out the ... This last week has been super, super hectic for me, hence my silence ... finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

   social issues unheard   We then drafted up our problem statement that would guide us for ... 'm really proud of all of us for getting the hang of GitHub so quickly. It was ... for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  proud of us for making it to Regionals.” Squash student-athlete: “During ... can talk to for help.” Squash student-athlete: “Being a student athlete ... never take for granted.” Favorite sport-related memory? Swimming student

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  product design, so thank you DPD for exposing me to my future career⚙️! I ... (RIP CME). Michael C. and I even travelled together to Tanzania for a safari ... of the bonds that tie us back to a place that simultaneously felt like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  purchased and let us use it for free (absolute miracle). So before we tried ... jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... Blender for everyone because it's 100% free and can really help you create

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  to another HackMIT event for the free food before heading off to get ... went to HackMIT, got lunch for free, looted the treasure trove of free ... in the evening. We went for Phantom of the Opera, aka MY FAVORITE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and ... make a combination that's so confusingly delicious for how mismatched it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  of connection between us and nature.” - Patagonia, on alpine sports ... topic.  People have many ways of dealing with the stress.  For me, winter ... 's good to go away for the weekend.  To feel the crunch of snow under the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Train for the last hour and you've forgotten what real music sounds like ... pre-teen me for a second. Are you done laughing? "A Change is Gonna ... 's been over a 100 degrees for weeks and your state has been in a drought

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  dinner would probably get us socially shunned for life, but here, we had a ... things that made the transition to college the hardest for me (I know. I am a GIANT BABY.). Lucky for me, I have a different sort of family with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  good read for the amateur type theorist or functional programming geek ... a prefrosh, mistaking me for another 2013, I was ready to cruelly ... vision, of course), working part-time for two startups, and UROPing with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  through Rush at all, at least for more than a few flashy events. Those who ... fraternity (for example, because you have too many extracurriculars on your ... that's not right for you. You can trust them. If you want another

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... the student center which would be our home for the next several days. Each of us specialized in a different artistic "discipline," (mine being

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  working on my personal statement for a few weeks now and am now on draft 4 ... application essays I want to complete before I leave for my semester abroad.  I ... for my company's intern jamboree.  Basically it is a week meant for all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... for education, discovery, and technological advancement were opened

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011