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  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  much talent and promise could end their own lives. In struggling to make ... and much other research that each year about 10 to 15 percent of college ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... to move forward and become profitable/successful. Anyway, my group

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to ... , and Jabber open to talk to remoters, and the VOIP phone on the right

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  , but the professor seems to know what he's doing and the material so far ... professor seems to be amazing, he even walked around before class started and ... seems very good and I am willing to practice physics. I used to avoid it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  gives students an opportunity to develop and demonstrate their ability to ... pretty much only based on classes, and most of those classes are ... year (instead of 2 if you apply to another school), and you don't need to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  , faculty, and anyone else you manage to meet. Rule #1: If you're paying for ... doing something wrong. There is so much going on, and I don't remember ... visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  , children and puppies} to truly enjoy this fricking hilarious... disney song ... inviting (and so open to you losing several weeks of your life to them ... sure is cute: to be totally honest,  cj sent this to me and i don't fully

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... was important to incorporate nature and color imagery.  Fiction was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the ... : Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind, and you ... , you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  ’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and ... blogs and didn’t have too much content left in me. Next semester, I’ll be ... it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission ... machine got temperamental) and everyone was baking cookies to distribute to ... next four years and what made me disappointed to leave. CPW was a unique

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... commented, “Oh, MIT. My siblings went there,” and proceeded to talk to us ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  waaaay too much and wrote about how we had to miss the annual dorm ... Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  things i have to do. i use it both proactively and reactively: i'll add events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action ... what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  out the door at 9:50, and made it to Astrophysics at 10:03. Our exam ... felt and continue to feel good about the exam. There was a calculation I ... along MIT professors and experts to guide our experience.  We can take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  and sore. Honestly, after so much MIT, I'm really looking forward to ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... tomfoolery that EC residents get up to and extrapolate them over almost 100

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  last year. Can you tell which ones are related to me and which ones are ... , Mark, and I drove back to the city early yesterday morning, and Adam and ... , although she doesn't like riding in the car at all. And now I really have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... only a median and a mode; because no number would be mean to Nate Silver ... correlation to reality." (on why pundits' opinions aren't worth very much) Also

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013