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

  

  CPW 2014 was the reason I chose MIT. At the time, the Institute wasn ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... ) are so important—they’re designed to give you a glimpse of what life

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

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... ." ------------------------------------- Shikhar wrote: "Should I put down that I have been member for four years of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... , why would you not go? If you haven't yet read either of Andi '25's

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up that much of my time! My classes: 8.021 - Physics E&M; I ... recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  influence what slice of the Institute's culture you experience, especially ... Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very ... mix of Cards Against Humanity and Pictionary! Shenanigans will ensue

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  lifestyle, independent of family and old friends, who were now one Atlantic ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... of October, fall semester of freshman year - and it had been one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  of "lol WRONG" but also institutionally bad. Algorithms aren't leaving ... overall snapshot of my listening habits. Then I remembered that 2018 was the ... , which I streamed at least 50 times over the course of a week, on my top

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  institute required classes!! YAYY!!  And learned SO MUCH and I am proud of ... I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end-of-school-year beginning-of-summer post, and it feels like so much has happened since classes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , passing the unfortunately closed-on-Wednesdays Art Institute of Chicago ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine that are usually of similar content. in infinite, we expand this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  different mediums offer different experiences A study in the rise of zombie ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of ... extremely quickly. Here is a list of blog posts I meant to finish, to no

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... support me without starting a war. Regardless of the outcome, though, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007