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• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  is by yours truly, Advice: "If at the end of the application process ... or two, at least at first, and spend a long time just thinking. When ... , and it'll be up to you to decide what goes on there. If at the end you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it isn't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that ... " you -- it's jam packed events because so many groups at MIT are excited ... while you're at other events. Again, that's not to hide this aspect of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on ... on Thursday night at 7:30 pm Stu Schmill, Dean of Admissions and Donald ... Parent Connectors and Alumni on Friday night at 5:00 pm Sponsored by the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  Bickerstaff At the parade Cracked was sandwiched between a brass band from Italy ... , with whom we would perform at CAVS later in the term, although we didn ... -based street performer Jenny Romaine were later asked to give a talk at CAVS

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  , because even though there are dentists at MIT Medical that are covered by ... some stuff in my mouth that I can NO LONGER FEEL. It's at this point that ... working as a production assistant at Pixar. That means I was mostly at my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT! Thursday, I arrived at CPW two hours later than intended. My flight through O

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... through senior years, I spent it at a less-exclusive high school where there ... then what I'd lived in before. For one, travel at MIT was primarily

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  literature (at least, until the motion picture starring Johnny Depp as the ... reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner ... , smirks unconsciously at certain parts, then breezes through the heavy door

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... at 10 AM on Saturday morning. Unlike my usual Tuesday and Thursday ... engineering honor society, at which the equally lovely and no more comparable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  school crew program at the Detroit Boat Club (I was on the varsity crew when I was a student at MIT). I found that I enjoyed my coaching more ... followed my passion. I quit my job at GM and became a full time crew coach

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Did you know that you can't double-major at MIT? Okay, I'm just ... that at MIT. If you complete the requirements for two majors at MIT, you actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at ... head down to the North End, where I met them at Mike's Pastry. Probably

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  reason safety enters into this at all is that I like to wander without ... I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest blog" by Amanda Frye, MIT '06 Spending a year at Cambridge has been an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  hate crying. I am all too frequently disgusted at myself for trying too ... difficulties that I cannot, and don’t need, to handle on my own.  At some point ... looking back at you from a yellowed photograph. I have fine lines around my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... reason, my elementary school went up to sixth grade instead of ending at fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has ... deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing ... .[annotation note="they're all good books: i don't know why i'm so bad at finishing ... ."][/annotation] doodling on my bass that i bought used at the local sam-ash three months ago

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I ... I live on a campus. While I was at MIT, I found myself wondering how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014