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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... to go to these sorts of labs, you should; it's awesome to see that your ... Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and ... of Soft Matter." Even though I'd never be able to take the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... ’s the nature of disasters like this. You kind of just need to look out for ... the sadness of it all, me and my roommate decided to paint a mural on

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ’m cheating myself out of the experience of learning! I need to grow on my own ... 10k, I could run half of that where I’m allowed to stop at obstacles ... dorky thing to say, but I’ve always thought of myself as a band nerd who

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... (currently 1 GB), ability to access MIT-only secure web pages, and, of course, you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  MIT! There's a couple more of them around campus, but I didn't want to ... Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  , snowy day: Doesn’t it make you want to just crawl into bed, a cup of ... There are many things in life that require you to have the ever elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... = 5th week. * You are now allowed to be a constituent of the Class of (y ... accurate one since I've taken a grand total of ONE (not to mention that it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to ... lots of ceebujen (fish and rice). And I got to film it all happening ... any dance background, as evidenced by this video of us learning to dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  exams before Monday morning; this led to some frantic texting of friends to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I ... , and I went back to my dorm to change out of my wet socks that were

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  simulated instead of real life. Bryan !like dissection. Needless to say, the project was still a lot of work. We had to collect a lot of data, plot the ... Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... through a series of challenges (an application, as it were) to test their ... question to ask, and a very difficult one to answer. Part of the reason it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... beautiful, as was the trip to the old Montreal. Here are some pictures of old ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... live through stories like his, but that would be lying to every one of ... problems, feel free to take it up with them.” The man looked at the two of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  !!! But I’ll be missing three days of school and I’ll have to pre- and ... ’m supposed to be enjoying myself, frequently I have work in the back of my mind ... that’s unique to me. The middle of the semester is a perennially bad time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that ... —after all, freshman fall with Pass/No Record had to be the easiest of all ... . I only stopped being terrified of Biology after I talked to my host

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006