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• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided ... were open-ended and I was used to formulaic writing within literature

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown ... to trek over to Tufts University and catch a sweet breakdancing ... Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan ... into the shower, allowing the hot water to wake me up and wash the ... Michigan or Mass. 10am. I arrive in Laredo, check in to my hotel, and head

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  trying to contact the Admissions office regarding your application, and you ... . Interviewers still have time to respond to you and do the interview. Gently ... new interviewer to you for some reason, we will waive your interview and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be ... to Ram '13, we - along with Pallavi '12 and Krithika '12 - were about ... time ran out much too quickly, but as I stepped off the boat and back

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  finals and my leaving...) and I haven't been able to resist snapping some ... moved before and now I understand why it is said to be so horrible. I ... (including an 11.30 trip to Verde's for more packing tape) and was absolutely

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  and math classes are arranged after you arrive to MIT, rising freshmen ... .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution ... revolution. **Aside II: It was even submitted to reddit.com, and no, not by me

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  , and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to ... students were herded back into the van and driven to a peaceful, secluded

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  material! And now I'm back on campus settling in and trying to feng shui ... York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W.735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving)- This is a required class

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small ... remember coming to MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) and meeting people ... . I was really surprised to be exposed to aspects of culture and

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... facility is spacious and unassuming (not to mention home to a small archive ... the original Star Trek movie, and also the main door to the CIC of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... and I'm tempted to cross the room and hit snooze, it's like a little ... unplugged my alarm and pulled my window shade before going to bed at 3 AM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  . Admissions tries to match prefrosh and hosts well, but there's only so much you ... . I did, and I related much more to the culture there than I did to ... you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  lakes in Rhode Island to begin with…!), played games, ate smores, and much ... DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... an eternity and the underground route from E25 to Lobby 7 seemed just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  . Best of luck, and remember you have so much life ahead of you to do good ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  around the country. But I digress and philosophize. To pass the time until ... forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late ... , the other team chooses a player to get up and convey as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be ... out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014