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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  students in the real world is that to survive here, you become an expert at ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to ... white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  need for academic validation that now went unfilled, in my inability to ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... usually a lot of what is needed to succeed is based on what other people ... get over it? I don’t know. What I do know is the fact that I need to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... manipulate the process in order to gain admission. In case this distinction is ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  "luring" the reader in. The college essay is very much the same way - the ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  orientation! BeaverCube needs to be able to rotate itself in orbit, point its ... other stars. This is partly due to my interest in climate science -- space ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from ... pins instead of spoons.) BS with giant cards is a challenge: it’s hard to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Friday(!), giving an address on clean energy. As prestigious as MIT is, and ... , is like when you have 10 minutes before your parents come upstairs to ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  feel like every day is the same in quarantine, and this was one way to ... is to be a free rider and not put in anything—bar the punishment, of ... against us to try and win as much money. With that in mind, these people

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... wanted to spend 12 hours on 2.009 in one sitting again. [carousel image1 ... Software had a lot of work to do. “Hey Erin, does Software need more people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  be able to withstand this temporary decrease in solar energy. Join us ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... back to your cart. The aisle is a straight line. There is a book in your ... emergency. You see it right in front of you, but your brain is unable to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high ... enough time to prepare. A walk-in activity is a different kind of class ... we didn’t need to prepare that much. It turns out that this was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  of. But, living in this area also makes me much closer to what has to ... to have. All you do is put in the address you're starting from, where ... sweet for a jolt of energy? To keep walking, click here. To go in and buy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019