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• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me ... moment for me, because this time last year Anthony was simply one of my ... reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements ... upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just classes I want to be on my transcript when I apply to college. Even if it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  ’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum ... comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... you successfully do what the subtitle of this post says, we have curated

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine. Remember, college is mostly what you make of it, here or anywhere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  surrounding Briggs Field: Helicopter flyby: Thousands of people packed Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the ... demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has ... surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a ... meet the bloggers! Come to Battle of the Bands! We gonna have fun, c

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on ... ! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all ... = awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... the end of the week. What's being hosed? Well there's this saying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next week...bonus points given to awesome characters I haven't thought of (I ... though I dressed as a witch like 5 times between the ages of 3 and 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... that might take them out of the area traveling, or otherwise be ... know one EC who told me that some of her applicants’ emails wound up in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... 'm not completely sold on the idea, but I did see this cow, and the artist ... there. I taped my favorite pair of running shoes back together with it too

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  to focus on biology or chemistry) Physics: -1 year of physics with lab ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  sort of review, but I'm still quite iffy on how I'll do...so would a poor ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like ... ) Good luck on your race today! Don't worry about puking too much, its sexy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  questions on this topic until that time, as many of them will likely be ... the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning. You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5.60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  're selecting Early Action applicants. Yes, on a Saturday. These folks are amazing ... leaving for the day :-) They both looked kind of tired, but as you can tell ... 'd better get out of there once I had my picture so they could go home and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005