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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  ’s also the crazy talented people who spin a lot of props and are good at ... was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... . The wick itself does not burn and instead soaks up the fuel, which is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• 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

  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

  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  -much-publicized Charles Guan sends out the following e-mail: 3 bikes in mostly good repair ... snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out ... detail: when I finished making the table, from 18 feet of steel rod, we put

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  i think this does a pretty good job of appealing to a wide audience ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  good latte macchiato. 3. I will miss the stunning beauty of the sun ... had sold the company for a box of oranges. Three weeks later I feel that ... the brink of the end of my time here at the Gymnasium, and there are a

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the subject. This entry is gonna be mostly pictures. So, like the good traveler ... New York at 11:00 AM. Of course, the Fung Wah Bus Company hurriedly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  ". Good one. At the end of the presentation, the Dalai Lama was asked for ... Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012