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  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  prospective MIT students what MIT is really about. Perfect! That’s just what I wanted to hear, so let’s start at the beginning. Where are you from? I ... the greater Los Angeles area. My neighborhood is mostly Latino. It’s the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there, taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took ... had to be the world’s biggest crossword puzzle: The tour ended around

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  short of a pyromaniac’s. https://youtu.be/ytdqcV3HV4o Is it real fire ... it’s hot and will burn you if you screw up. The fire isn’t any less ... spinning is just another sport with it’s own set of precautions people need

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  further ado, and in no particular order, here’s some advice and resources ... to write about. It’s okay to completely scrap that idea and go back to ... people talk about what’s important to them. One of the best places to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  . It’s cold and dark and quiet outside; the river has frozen over; some ... means the sunlight feels so bright (when it’s there) and hotpot with ... 8.08: Statistical Physics II. It’s a 12-unit class (the same as a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  , that’s only 0.3 miles… BUT STILL"]from New Vassar to the physics building.[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... scheduled time. While MIT time helps, it’s not quite enough, so all of us have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a ... ,[/annotation] and I still filled it with books. This was somewhat easier because it’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  ones involved in pulling, it’s easier to maintain good posture, and ... the right. you can try to adjust the cart so that it’s pointing forwards ... force the cart’s handle (or whatever other part of the cart you’re holding

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  ID"]Saloniki’s,[/annotation] [annotation note="all of the cafe staff ... To Go!![/annotation] What’s that, you may ask?  From the Too Good To ... perfectly good, surplus food from your local stores. It’s always a surprise

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  Institute. It’s also an incredibly fancy event that expects people to peel off ... from Van’s Discount Fabrics in Chinatown for a sturdier lining. Always ... standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX ... other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus’s ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... , we get formal instruction!!! Besides the level of excitement, there’s ... through “oh no’s” and “ahhs” and hope the registrar will help you fix the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  particular because I was incredibly homesick. It’s not that I struggled to make ... , Joel G. ‘18, Alexa J. '20, and Kevin S. '19. I think one of the things ... it’s drowning in work, needing a calculator for an exam in the next 10

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  overflowed its buffer in memory. But without further ado or apologies, let’s ... me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... . It’s going to be difficult to put this in perspective, so bear with me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  quarter, I took Women’s Weightlifting. Which was awesome. Before starting ... , it’s really satisfying noticing that I can lift more weight now than I ... weight machines, plus a lot of the dorms have their own weight rooms. It’s

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  high school was just pretty hard. I had 6 or 7 B’s on my transcript ... school taught me how to fail. All those B’s (okay, B’s are really not that ... fact, I know a transfer student at MIT who did exactly that, and now he’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... , although I wouldn’t recommend this strategy on exams. Anyways, let’s move on ... platform, which is MIT’s online learning environment, built on edX. Many

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... students, sometimes it’s “I Have Truly Found Paradise.” Sometimes, it’s “I ... January. It’s terrifying, yes, but I know that by Thanksgiving I will know

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  ). Section leaders are the three students in their second year of GEL ("GEL 2's ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  the next bus stop. “There’s our bus.” “You’re kidding me.” “Nope.” It ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the ... home my bother achieved every child’s greatest fantasy. After our second

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012