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  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... stop at the grocery store I remembered so fondly from my childhood in ... waters, so one fine day, she begged her parents to let her stare at the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... French House dinner - at this point, I don't remember what the food ... at 21cm wavelengths. "Why the heck do hydrogen atoms emit at 21cm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... challenges, and then they would predict how well they would succeed at officer ... with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... concluded I was shooting too high, and falling quite short. At the conclusion

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn ... environment, the basis of which was developed here at MIT. I spent two more years at the camp, taking more programming classes (including my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... began my job here at the office, and while I've learned a lot (a lot) over ... from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  here: please keep in mind that all of the following are, at worst, only ... % serious at best. By “at best,” I of course mean, “at funerals.”) -8 ... at summarizing the 8.03 course material: -A wave on a spring is a wave

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  the Charles river as the Red Line subway torpedoed into Boston at 9 AM ... . Sleep was encountered at 3:30 AM. Eleven hours drove by on their weary ... regret when you think about four day weekends at MIT. Let me try to explain

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  hawking upcoming events on campus. No way could I have done it justice, at least without growing several extra limbs. Although, the Infinite at the ... taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Rhode Island), I practically squealed at every tree (I'm not used to ... . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my uber-awesome host Christina, who happened to be working at the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most ... stare up at the ceiling and think about the dream i just had, still a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] My brother and I at a baseball game as kids

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed ... easily span an entire semester at other universities without the ... that these effects are real at all was mindblowing. (If you've ever seen

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  possible at the beginning of each lecture so "we know what's coming", instead ... videos at home replacing lectures, and "lectures" being practice problems/review with a professor and TAs. Most of my "notes" are coming from the at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  first 1.5 years at college because nothing seemed that interesting to me ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time—at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  A few months ago, I stumbled across this blog, which takes a look at ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... I could tell someone's personality just by looking at their shoes. At

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... classroom after recitation quiet and empty typically takes place at godly ... when your alarm buzzes. everybody stares at you. [caption id="" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... finishes a run as an 86 at Sullivan Station, but then needs to start its next run as a 99 at Wellington Station. "We may have that bus what we call

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  students traditionally receive Brass Rats in the spring of sophomore year at ... , which was held last weekend at the Boston Park Plaza. Table of Contents ... where Ring Delivery was going to be held: April 19, 2020 at the Boston

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... looked up at the dome. The inscriptions at its base. The ten pillars. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021