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  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  the People's Republic of China winning and the United States once again ... Mildorf (Gold Medal), and Eric Price (Gold Medal). Way to go, Hyun Soo ... the 2012 Summer Olympics. And this coming February (while we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  & Caron Wheeler tbh i mostly listen to this one for the sound and ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I've been very precious with preserving my energy. Even then, I'm not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... , gas, break Ugh, Friday nights are the worst I can’t wait to be home and ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous ... corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for ... final becomes much more important, and I've been told that studying for it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  ’s super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five ... favourite examples of modular origami because it’s both fun to assemble and ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... -)meditation room (I found this pretty silver one, and kind of wanted to keep it as a ... approach and know how to have a good time. It's worth it." I finally realized

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  not much was discussed. this gave me enough time to make dinner and eat ... ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... dishwasher several times, run downstairs to the pantry/meat freezer/fridge, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can ... 't, attack befriend the nearest hipster and then come back to the end of this ... I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... - faced with decisions like where to live and to work. I didn’t have values ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  disclaimer, I am still a freshman and I am not claiming to know everything ... you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get ... actually money. You have $24 and in one day you must decide how to spend that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... with permission.  And then he built a mechanical water strider to ... can teach generations of MIT students how to create anything they

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wanted to put myself out there and meet as many people and expose myself to ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  really was everything I’d imagined it to be-- and more. Somewhere out there ... you’ve ever met, learn to balance classes with extracurriculars and ... , put my all into my application, and waited, holding my breath once more

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  our selection committee (just kidding, it’s much less fighting and much ... possible. From recruiting and training our student tour guides to assisting ... simply getting into a college; your goal should be to graduate. And quite

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  @MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that ... special programs meant to support and enhance students’ lives outside of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014