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• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking at course listings, and suddenly. She realizes. That everything is ... convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not-at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... approach ultimately had to cancel their plans to bring students back at the ... , it seems like universities keep announcing plans at the last minute

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross-registration helped me make friends at Harvard and how our friendship has evolved since ... previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  Shuli answering questions about life at MIT. It was a surprisingly ... , aka attitude, at certain times (point the antenna at the ground communication station when we want to communicate, point the camera at the ocean

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... they will be. I'm amazed at nearly every single person at MIT, but there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... Musical at 10PM, heading to bed around 1 after watching some dumb You ... (the best High School Musical, obviously.) I slept at 2AM that night

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... mine, smiled, then looked at me with a serious face and said simply ... like aikawa-sensei can."]late to class[/annotation] at this [annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  students' weekend or day I had been to. I didn't know what to expect at all ... exploring a new city on my own (I'd always been picked up at the airport before). There are plenty of events for parents at CPW, and lots of them do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... saying goodbye to my family at the airport. As expected, there was a show ... wonderful concept to experience. Also, walking back from dinner at Harvard

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead ... shouldn’t have taken me that long to do so. The deans at S^3 understand that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we ... Morticia, specifically at this moment. 10) The program of Ignite, the very

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening ... lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a ... skills like doing laundry, cooking, and taking public transportation at a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... enough things around campus. But at the same time, I didn’t feel inspired

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  . If you haven't been contacted yet, email cpw-hosting [at] mit [dot] edu ... at you." (Selam) Also: there will be shuttles running from Logan to ... vegetables. Seriously. Your digestive system will thank you. Sleep at night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself ... good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... meat and vegetarian option at Spanish house dinners. I enjoy making the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  at night, so bring a jacket, preferably with a hood. Rain boots or some ... shower and stuff at some point. Sleeping stuff. Again, this is something ... bring: Homework. If at all possible (i.e. if you don’t have The Most

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  , but that’s not what I got at all. I would put these families into two ... , but the more you slowly realize it is wayyy more than what you see at ... will never grow closer to a person, or people, than when you are up at 3

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... -ray this time) and onwards to China. When I got back to MIT at the beginning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... /packing/unwinding, hop on a taxi at 5AM Wednesday morning for a 7:30 AM flight at Logan ... internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Being home is...odd. Being

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013