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• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... their own modifications and designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  you choose to get a PhD, begin when you are 19 2. Be distantly related ... encouraged him to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT, Pedersen decided to start his career instead, partially because he no longer wanted to be supported by his father

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  out about the MIT sororities before going to CPW, so this was a perfect ... fraternities are right across the river, accessible by a short walk or a ride on ... , which mostly everyone went to, as evidenced by this picture: There was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  friends, but also as a chance to get poke bowls at the mall, try out a new ... and get back to a healthier weight. I walk to work, take full advantage ... “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  get the impression that success as a math major must mean being able to ... the bigger departments at MIT so you get to meet a lot of people with ... while to get used to calling myself a math major.  Sometimes I do feel

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  the Unknown by Danny and Allan G. '20 here comes a thought by Joonho K ... Yuliya K. '18 Let's Go Fly A Kite by Joel G. '18 Good luck. I'll be ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll ... signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  back from his trip to Italy) If your assigned host is back from Spring Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... 't going to go pre-med or do a PhD, bioengineering felt more useful as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... to take a step back and look at my choices and think, "well planned ... 's a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. Big change, political

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

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... . It was nice to take a moment out of the productivity-maxing of MIT and ... ="119565" /] Anyhow, we returned to the campsite and enjoyed a delicious spaghetti

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the ... hit the floor. Next to her, Mike '09, who I'm sure some of you know as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor ... as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth ... ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... about quite a lot. To name a few of these memories: A friend at Random ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face ... need to get that happiness barometer up. The best part is walking the ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to ... cheaply available. To build that speaker, Gedion used a soldering iron to ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007