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• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT, because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been ... 's Anonymous," which listed the following description in the IAP guide: "A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... a musician at first glance! And coming from what essentially amounted to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to ... been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... centralized where you live, as many do. As a result, every dorm hosts their own

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  ="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... participate in a MISTI program, among other things."]IAP.[/annotation] Along with a [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  best friend, I use a Tumblr Song Sorter after every major album release, and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... that I have a minor platform, I finally have a place to share my awful

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... ,” [annotation note="see also: “so false.” can be used as a filler/form of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  The Putz-Tetazoo exchange program is a longstanding tradition where a ... East Campus"]Tetazoo[/annotation] and a resident of [annotation note ... for a week. Putz and Tetazoo have quite the relationship, one that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who ... joked about how the opener, a band called The Weather Station, had a ... but I bought a shirt anyway, a $30 mint-green crop top, partially

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  "this guy is extremely shirtless," jeff says, pulling up a messenger ... . it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid-cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of you who know me, I have a very strict "no classes before 11am" rule that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  .02 lecture outside, so we grabbed a blanket from the pod lounge and headed over ... , glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... thought about taking a shower, but it was like I was glued to my bed. Just

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... 't bother him a whole lot, he said it was definitely a lot at times. I'll admit I was a bit taken aback by his reply. While I was gathering up the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... 60 free t-shirts – ~50% complete. This is a wild and probably incorrect ... wearing different Jane Street shirts every day. Sidequest 4: Get a cool

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  So if you've been reading these blogs for a while now, you might already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016