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  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... that, they built a giant box fort from the ruins of the stock market

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  now. It is nearing the end of November; the first round of applications ... , everything is fully out of your control, and has been passed into the hands of ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... Friday. Not "end of the week" Friday. This Friday by Rebecca Black. Like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club ... speech turned out to be excellent, delving into the nature of reality, mass

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching ... body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public ... the relief map of events in my memory. Only two incidents among

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  along the lines of that I was a high school kid when I first heard of pix2 ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  the first days of 18.01A I met Carl '07, a fellow airplane lover from ... "registration day" occurs the day before our first day of class. Does this mean ... register on Registration Day, which is the day before the first day of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here ... interview. First, it is your responsibility to arrange the interview. You ... little research on the web, and think of some questions to ask. Remember

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... branches of our repository. the idea of a branch is that you can develop it ... "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  Dining Room; Photo Credits: Joy Ekuta, ‘13) First on the deliciousness menu, there was a smorgasbord of amazing food from both Peru and the ... Last night, the Latino Cultural Center (LCC) groups hosted their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss ... -Jo the best of luck this weekend!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  abroad like the aforementioned individuals, my first IAP still promises to ... consists of lectures, readings, and labs, designed to equip trainees with the ... Cognition Lab. One of the great things about doing research at the ECCL is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup ... the most useful thing ever, why hasn’t anybody thought of that?” (My first reaction was, of course, “HOLY CRAP BOBA MACHINE”) So after their

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  , or Waitlisted for the Class of 2013 and I know you all are waiting for ... " is not the end of the journey. The next couple of months will not be ... , but at least you will know that the wait is over. The first question

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  left Tucson the first time, I wanted to linger. At the start of my road ... fast. I just finished the first draft of my manuscript a week ago, and I ... liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  -powered airplane. The guys with their plane on the day of its first flight test ... than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  ...i didn't bring my bike down from my house in New Hampshire the whole year ... astounding!! i'm currently living near the MIT Museum, which is a couple of ... cheese"]Roxy's[/annotation] because of the distance, or when i'd UBER to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020