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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... 's chill and didn't care anyway, plus she got a free meal out of the deal

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself ... after I ran myself and select members of the engineering department into ... of the time.   It’s funny. I have carpal tunnel, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  on my email and read some articles and flipped through the first chapter of the python natural language processing textbook. then i hung out ... 's reflection on John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration of the Independence of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad ... graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad ... have the shared context of MIT with somebody, do we still have anything

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course ... and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things ... and lack of motivation, the cycles of therapy and relapse, the emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  end of your freshman year. BE will be the first and only department with ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... 're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... with somewhat of a plan, and you'll probably be fine. Some members of the ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... my first year as an Admissions Officer and I was really impressed by ... by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago ... :50am: The first student I recognize arrives: Candice from Utah =) 9:42am ... arrived! 11:13am: It has started to rain. Lots of umbrellas on the campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... of Soft Matter." Even though I'd never be able to take the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  with a lot of family issues, i was living alone for the first time, and i ... fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of situations the problem with being suspicious of everyone is that interacting ... great time and making a lot of friends. or as another example, one of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not ... little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  bueno Muses, first rate Resonance, and of course gotta love the ladie ... While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first ... This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... "]reckless abandon[/annotation]. But that’s only scratching the tip of the surface here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of ... communities. Between the four villages, we got a pretty good idea of the needs of the urban and rural villages. When we weren’t working with GK, we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  The first day I got back, stiff from the plane, I hit the river path ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023