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• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  - read on. Each one of those balls represents a new person I met, or a ... ]) Before I write about my experience at CPW, I have a disclaimer to make ... have pictures on them. This tendency results from my inability to focus

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  quick ride to Toledo for a day trip. #9: I Dub Thee My Favorite Alley ... without a visit to the Sagrada Familia. Though construction on the Sagrada ... 21L.590 would be the perfect chance to finally take a Literature course

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  54 units (this is a new-ish change, before it used to be 48). A lot of ... . College is the time to take risks and go out on a limb. But we have seen too ... , I went out on a limb. I wanted to put a bit of myself into a community

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... ), Concourse (humanities-STEM mixture), and Tutmonda (a brand-new language

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical ... The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... right after the class of 2007's Brass Rat had decided to try using a woman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  everything going on that semester, I had to be a good student. I negotiated ... entirely on the time I had to find a way out of that F. And the admissions ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... perspective on who i am and what it takes for me to be happy. this is a post for ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  share a common Website to compare a variety of materials and exchange ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... with each other. Whenever I’m stuck on a problem, I always have someone I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  importantly, it's a chance for these youngsters to forget about difficult times at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... 've already been working really hard to make this year's camp a great success

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  spent a ton of time listening to hip-hop on the radio because that’s the ... ”. I would cross-stitch that on a pillow if I knew how to sew. I ... have Retrospectives. You have a lot of fun new words to learn. It was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , and introduce the Pulse pen to people on their campus. It's a smart move ... was quickly shown, was very wrong. I was handed a brand new, 2 gig pen ... , trying to get the answer. I guess MIT students just think on a different

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  "]Chipotle[/annotation] than I expected, but that's fine. I've got a few quick and relatively ... ASMR cooking videos on YouTube. They're actually a pretty big genre on ... of breaking recipes down into simpler steps to make it seem a little

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  'm a little cheesy sometimes - what else is new? Luckily, I have about ... here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call ... will, probably, be a few times you have too much going on and forget that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  actual event, we also had to go on a few shopping trips, including one to a ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of ... group hung out at Taste of New for a bit before migrating to S’mores at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  assignments on a calendar? I'd have to copy them all into a calendar, then ... progress on their yearly creative goals. However, if you don't want to put a ... representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... New Vassar used to be a parking garage, and I can't unsee it. The vibe ... people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how ... prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  learn this balancing act. Focus on it early.   Andres A. '17 Try to ... while doing work or studying. Being able to type while reading on a ... speed) (It saves a lot of time and allows you to iterate on material

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017