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  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  when I went to play with foam swords on the rooftop of Random Hall. I ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on ... 't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... got into Reddit (bad idea at this time of semester), especially r

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  Seminar in Music, where we wrote a 20-page research paper on a field of our ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  on the tip of my tongue at the time. That was an absolutely stupid ... make me no less of a manly man, I happened to have two stuffed animals on ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those of you who applied Early Action have received your decision, and those of you who applied Regular Action have begun your anxious waiting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  skills on the way, that would be lovely, but it wouldn’t be enough. Of ... classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  sign to hang on the side of the coop. The structure they built actually ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... to be starring in a Picture of Dorian Gray play here on Broadway. I am ... , once here in Los Angeles and another time on her final night of the Eras

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  enrichment programs as the coasts. I like Bebras' focus on accessibility, both in terms of geographic outreach but also its structure of different ... teacher and suggest they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  Reading applications from students born after the fall of the Berlin ... was on TV: But if you aren't so lucky to be so old as I am, MIT's Age ... . One of AgeLab's key inventions has been AGNES, or "Age Gain Now Empathy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  Scottsdale, AZ. Have you run out of frames to frame your MIT certificates yet? ;) Then we have a Californian trio of Esmeralda R., Michelle C., and Helen W ... and I'll post them on the blogs! :) My email's up on the banner :D For

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  Beginning this weekend, MIT will be going on the road with Brown ... philosophies on admissions, financial aid, and more. Each session, including Q ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  natural progression of life events was school followed by college followed ... starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in ... 6 years of my life to answering a question that might just be one

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  knowing absolutely no computer programming besides the rudiments of html ... , it really depends on the purpose. If you want to be course 6, then you ... what are some of the classes/teachers you've particularly enjoyed? I didn

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  comes lightly. This understanding comes on the backs of painful nights, of ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... of the Watergate building beneath a white ledge textured with cracks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016