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• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... relatively narrow area of research, i will also miss the opportunities i have ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... -metapost? It's gonna be a good day. Speaking of, why do people shorten "organic chemistry" to "orgo"? Does Inorganic Chemistry (all the cool kids are calling

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... the gaps of some of the stuff that I semi-blogged about. As you may ... couple of weeks I set foot on campus, I've been involved with the SAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as ... that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... Nuova (The New Life).[/annotation] And in one of his hands it seemed that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW ... changed my baby, grabbed scraps of sleep when possible, and eaten the nice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... a white paper about one of three topics from the perspective of a MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... scientific misconception, outline a lesson plan to address the misconception

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  to the world? am i making good use of the education given to me, could ... , everything, which the author intended as a "feel good" game about interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... find out whether or not certain friends of mine - from across the nation ... , really, this is not the end of the world. I wish I could tell you all that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  general feature of the American education system, that if you have a good ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I ... the big picture of Development and more on Design; every group of four

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  clear, this post is not part of the puzzle nor does it contain any hints ... It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors ... over the past few months, you know that there's been a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  pictures of CPW, so here they are: Mason '10 (yes, that Mason, from the ... Mason! The Snack Bar, where we kept the thousand-plus dollars worth of ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student ... ’t remember the event that “shattered the rock of theocracy” from high school US

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i ... from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from diverse corners of the world and seeing how much energy and talent you bring

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

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have lived here. 2) The proximity. All of my classes are just across Mass. Ave

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018