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• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  our lobby to have a frank discussion about safe sex practices and ... ! The perfect way to start any CPW morning. Surprisingly, it tastes a lot ... present. As it turns out, adults and teenagers are too large to ride on tiny

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy ... lot of stepping on and off of chairs. I didn’t really know how to set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... phase where I wanted to go into cybersecurity but I went on this trip to ... intelligence instead. I went to a coding camp over the summer that I really liked

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with ... you would be a good addition to the MIT community. ECs know MIT, went to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... when, while working on the first problem set, I had a lightbulb moment on ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  pictures to grace our dorm walls. Not only is he an amazing lecturer, he's a wonderful, down to earth, person. Tune in next time for a life update! My ... Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  produce stand to campus Anne Wilson, Campus Dining March 27, 2009 A ... from noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays in the East Campus Courtyard near Walker ... make the project a reality. "Ideally, we would like to see the student

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... . Anyone know an eight-letter word having to do with the location of M*A ... think of any other topics you'd like me to focus on, let me know. And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  need to decide on a major (sometime during sophomore year) and then study ... pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... all: What are you going to study? Would a degree from MIT really be

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... to 17 out of the 408 students on our wait list. At this point, our wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  had to soldier on to Jamaica Pond, where we spent an hour and a half ... didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to ... way out to the Boston Common. With such a plan in mind, I met Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you ... mess (me). One benefit of having to walk a long way from Next House to campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post ... staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  I’ll procrastinate on doing work if it means getting to spend a couple ... lot of weight on having a good salary. As someone who used to worry about being approved by others, I used to put a lot of weight on having a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring, check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library, which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... there :) Watch this video of two hamsters on a wheel. . . . it's not a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020