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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

   from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Bulgaria. Then he moved to Persia to do construction work for the Russian ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... , prompting inquiries into “differing cultural values” to account for the ... asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... quotas or targets for any racial or ethnic group, but we can take steps to ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow ... Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going ... general. And thanks to Noah S. '10 for showing me his circuitry and giving

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... Beaux-Arts style, characterized by large windows, large staircases, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to advocate for his alma mater, but he didn't. Instead, he told me that ... . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... , wanted to finish my thesis about Facebook more than I wanted to work for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J ... total approximately equal to 2^11.514. Just for clarity, these cookies ... to bake desserts for birthdays and other special days! The cookies were

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... more for having gone through this journey and brought myself to this

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... : what happens to your teeth when you get braces) with Andrea, one of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And ... document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012