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  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture. Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... of lava flowing, exploding, and making "pillows" and streams. After

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars ... around me men shuffle and snore. Reviews rave about the cool concept of ... pitfalls of working at a startup, and on the many forms of engineering and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When ... all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of ... don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  and imprisonment of girls whom she was nurturing and the wrenching ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s: the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  told me this was the best semester of college they’ve had so far, and the ... like the concept of just stop doing things that you don’t like and which ... , and if i can’t find any of that then i’ll discard the task “insanity

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... right afterwards. This was the first and only time she had gone to Rutgers ... . And Junot Díaz stressed the importance of making one's family also feel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in ... particular culture, and the importance of listening to and building trust with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things ... Representation, taught by Fox Harrell (one of the best professors I've ever met and ... .628 as a kind of gateway into CMS and the classes I actually enjoyed, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  my room is nice and warm? The first sign that something was going ... spring break, and then brought the plants to my room. Now they sit on my glass center table. My mind looked at the leaves. Those green and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got ... the basement of MIT medical, bought fritos from a vending machine, and ... , though, and I'm going back tomorrow morning to see if any of the other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  friends, who’d known me back when I failed each and every single one of the ... making a tall stack of toast with butter for me and the rest of her ... orchard and brought back bags and bags of the crispest, sweetest apples I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement ... students can come and relax and enjoy some of the more questionable

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... at The Atlantic and former professor of mine (he was a visiting scholar

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  is connected, so you'll be able to avoid some of the weather. And, it ... here as we prepare for nearly two-thirds of the admitted class of 2011 to descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  (obviously, we’re a little biased), and we get a lot of questions about the ... answers to some of the most common questions we hear, and a few others that ... building exercises, and introductory combat skills. The goal of LLABs varies

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They ... controlling the opposite sides of your body. I was suddenly glad and proud that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  thread about the first AI model, Shudu, who often gets hired in place of ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... Tok describing the sluttiness of sweaters for my friend Julian '23 Cami: This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  quite honestly be the reason I got through first semester), and would ... FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  Registrar’s Office and Office of the First Year for example) and with some ... At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically. We