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  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  amazing, and CPW was the first time that I pulled a non-academic, non ... first time that I have ever tried liquid nitrogen ice cream – and the ... professors, and pick the brains of really friendly students about my random

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post ... , and into the tunnels. She seemed pretty happy when she left: (L

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  competition, advancement of synthetic biology, and the development of open ... establishing and operating the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, a community ... of the project with some amazingly driven and hardworking individuals

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  the middle of my Asian Dance Team showcase and watched in awe as ... their cats! 73% of EC and and 66.7% of Random voted for cats as the best ... -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of ... , pika rush* coincides with the first week of school, injecting sunbursts ... marathon? Nobody, that's Who. *At MIT, the first week of school is reserved

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... . However, all of the assignments were due at the same times and the amount of ... my other classes, and I had to switch it to listener at the end of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  end of the night, some of my friends and I ventured over the Spring ... , and of course, the Meet the Bloggers event! The event went lovely - the ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The ... heaven. And the fact is that a lot of times, you don't even need the Subway ... , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of ... welcome to attend this program on the hows, whys and whens of financial aid ... of the events created with you in mind for CPW and it really is just

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the ... analyze “fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions ... Tuesdays there are two lectures about the history of film and particular

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Random Hall and into pika on Monday. The purest of all unimportant joys ... the sad, sweet, soul-searching-and-room-searching process of moving out ... -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  them, and they used the Common App. I picked my first college because it ... fit in. For the first time in my life I didn't enjoy school anymore. And ... classes as I could, spent the remainder of my time working as a teaching and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in"]Tyler Jacks[/annotation] and [annotation note="associate director at the Koch

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  nation to take the step of fusing molecular and cellular bioscience with ... might also add that the two bearded admissions officers, Ben and Stu, were ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... all the people making fun of "Rizz" and "Ohio" and "Skibbidi?" My son is ... Toilet, Craftee, Cash and Nico, and all the other weird parts of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... alumnae, prefrosh, and current students all across the country, who better

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... 've memorized the musical and [annotation note="and absorbed about 60% of it ... radicals of their day, pushing back against the horrors of colonialism and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily ... stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012