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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to offer and time management, all while doing a good job. It ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to ... Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like—a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... sorting, editing, and selecting photos. Final takeaway: do not work on a ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves ... time, in between doing homework and writing papers and trying to stay

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... "]UROP?[/annotation] B: Because I need a job. A: Why do you need a job? B: Because I need something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... ...and never got a response (might have something to do with the face ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  please, if you find yourself sitting on a stove, do yourself a favor and ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  am going to do it." Every little success felt tremendous (what? a note ... doing there. Before I could have a full-blown nervous meltdown, the lights ... judge you for doing it. Dance. Try out for a sport. Audition for an a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you ... key while doing practice tests. Yes, a poor performance can sometimes ... afford to spend a couple of hours here and there doing something cultural

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  smiling variety, GoSox! a good example of the "how did they do that!?" while ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out ... people choose hacking. As I've mentioned, hacks had a lot to do with why I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... quite a lot of things that we love.  We love learning.  We love solving ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  dorm: it turns out that quite a few of my fellow bloggers do live ... does. Basically, EC gets a reputation as the dorm doing crazy things. In ... two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  granted and always aim for the A. If you can't figure out what you are doing ... do." Part of the journey of being a premed is figuring out what exactly ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I would decorate my scraper bike. I DO remember that I sent in a copy of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day ... ’t normally do a lot of work, it just feels interesting. Of course, it’s not ... . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  because people generally think it is a good thing to do. You should do ... do with my life? In these cases, agency may feel more like a curse than ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  a foothold on why they wanted to Do The Thing beyond these reasons ... led to wanting to Do The Thing) and also helped me build a credible ... thank you note. Is this not a thing youths do anymore?? Seriously, y

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... habit, but I do think it is a compulsion, which I am uneasy about. So, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022