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  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very ... been rather silly to create a blog that no one would read. Nonetheless, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of ... -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... Station and we headed over to campus to get all registered. The highlight

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their ... year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... that playlist. @spotify wyd. This is relevant to you because algorithms

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being regularly exposed to challenging and cutting edge ideas and being asked to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the ... there’s no way to wiggle out of your eight HASS subjects.) This is all ... up AP credit hoping to pass into more interesting or pertinent courses

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... , you definitely don’t want to know. A few times, I sit on the floor and try to think things through. For rather difficult problems, sitting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  hurt students when they apply to med school or law school? Thank you very ... and stanford. I want to do engineering, so MIT seems obvious. however, i don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... your jeans to thread the bandana through. you're killed if your hunter

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  Another Questions Omnibus... as always, I wish I had more time to ... , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... each application, and that people know that we did our best to select a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... pretty disciplined person, I have no self control when it comes to books

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... like about my classes, the reasons I'm excited to take them. I’m on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021