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  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
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... are nearly one-third of our undergraduate female population at MIT now

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... mother’s first comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... teaches undergrads at MIT. I thought it would be really cool to ask someone ... Klink. I'm a lecturer at MIT, and I'm the Chief Participation Officer for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  (Course 2A). After spending a summer traveling with friends and working at ... Immunology and enjoying my time at a university that is very, very different ... ’s all relative! At MIT, I lived in Next House for my first two years and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... somewhere between 12 and 1 and get up at around 8. It netted me a good amount

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008