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• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  For MIT students, we're most often having fun when we're way too busy ... Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I ... relative impacts and significances for those days by mentioning them together

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  enjoyed making things; that hasn't changed at all. This summer, for example ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... and a metal post for a seat (ouch). I wanted something nice, something

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes ... has for three years worked in a lab analyzing the effects of recombinant ... active volunteer emergency medical technician, and a tutor for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  , my CPW was pretty tame. Keep in mind this is saying tame for CPW - this is a lot like saying west campus people are normal (they are, for MIT). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... been talking for 40 minutes when it's only been 4- yeah, there was really no hope for me. instead, i will blog randomly yet again to tell you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  !!), is also my most recent sketchbook because I've hardly drawn for myself since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  earlier than when it's due/next one is released, but psets are hard for me okay:("]pset cycle.[/annotation] For now, here’s a brief overview of what ... for two weeks.   1:00 pm  I have daily meetings with my hosts (my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  i have no less than three different drafts for blog posts stewing ... project with a team for the first time ever at hackMIT instead of just ... 't guaranteed admissions so swag hunters were mostly filtered out"]going for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  A few days ago, Spotify generated a playlist for me that included a song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... years, like Yuliya's, Selam's,  Jack-William's...) For me personally, CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  't halt for us either, and all the hosts are regular MIT undergraduate students, so it's best for everyone if logistics are handled ahead of time ... . Second, be on the lookout in your email for more specific information later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader—Professor Eddie Farhi, Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics—found himself ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ... , I mean). Some writers try to sell childhood as prime real estate for innocence and unadulterated curiosity; for me, all the literary value of ages

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... any plans for tomorrow?" Their responses were like this: "Tomorrow ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009