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• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... Boston, and three Boston adventures. This time, I'm moving away from the ... campus). CAMBRIDGE ON CAMPUS BAHFest This April, I attended my third

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it, inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it ... modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... non-binary pronoun like “they” to refer to everyone. When I was talking

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that's what I can offer, because that's what has helped me most this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... that Marco Antonio Solis? I went to a costume party on Halloween hosted

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike ... into an awesome old couple from Colorado, who have summitted Cotopaxi (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  flooded the Student Center and Infinite. I'd almost forgotten what a pre-teen looked like until I saw them navigating the cooridors and poking around ... (parents and students) recognized Ry on campus, and I wasn't even with him

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan ... current research focuses primarily on health economics issues. I am ... their choice of Part D plans and the impact on their well-being. I am also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? As I've said, the waitlist is not ranked. We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... , procrastinatory research project that I adopted in the dwindling time before my ... three methods: *i.e., everyone likewise procrastinating in one of Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  shopping and eating and sleeping and eating. (Did I mention eating? Eating ... up on top of each other like the laundry I forgot to fold on Sunday ... restaurant you were expecting eleven and having them spit in your sushi. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston ... 's Worcester. I'm going to teach you how to pronounce it now, you ready? Pretend ... total n00b when you get to MIT. I'll help you out. First, pronouncing

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and, realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the next problem. This may have been, subconsciously, due to the hope that I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  Has CPW left you with this? :) So I learned two major things about myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... next CPW would help? =p) and apparently I look a lot taller. 10. "Wow

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008