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• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , one of which is over five thousand words long. I made write-ups for the ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

   breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a second. and we, the bloggers, will be ... the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... , I encourage you to stand up, shut off your communication devices, make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  , when I blew up the air mattress, that I don’t actually have space for 2 prefrosh, so I had to come up with some clever options for “prefrosh tetris ... everyone is so happy to live also. Next up was soundcheck for the CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  'd take up an entire blog post just for that, so maybe another time. <3 I ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  - beating myself up for not enjoying something I ‘should’ be enjoying. I ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... grills were fired up and ready to hand hundreds of prefrosh and MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... sciencey things and learning cooler sciencey things and getting paid for it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... doodling kind of stopped last semester, so I decided to dig up some notes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  ceremony came up, the green team won a giant foam trophy for finishing first ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A ... week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your burdens are lifted: IAP, and summer. That's why for this summer, I decided ... being responsible for doing Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and ... Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of ... balled up a white t-shirt covered in even more Twister polka-dots and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased ... blog entry. Application tracking: This is the big update for today. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... my darn itchy hands for escaping necessary work+studying way too often ... mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  what MIT has to offer. Being an artsy person, I signed up for a pre ... FAP I signed up for a freshman advising seminar in the arts called FASAP ... for Visual Arts, artists-in-residence, the Center for Advanced Visual

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... on their way for tonight's event. 8:20am: Ben starts spreading the word

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007