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• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  many that at one point I had to transfer all of the pictures I had taken ... interested in then e-mail ALL THREE OF US at snively [at] mit [dot] edu -- ask ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... world, a little cross-section of life at MIT. I'll be taking you through ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired ... year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went ... bilingual, I was envious of the linguistic capabilities of the students at ... "]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  the Geek show, one I tie-dyed myself, a pair of two way radios at the ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , being at an academic institution with over 800 years of tradition gives ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... community at MIT, serving as Vice President of the African Students’ Association and the President of Sakata Afrique, an African dance team at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... set at the hobby shop - as soon as we learn some of the needed acoustic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel like the dumb one who ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18.03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One ... new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  the top of my lungs. UROP I have a really cool UROP at the Scalable Cooperation group at the Media Lab this semester - after a semester of ... write about your classes. Seriously, look at this mess. (Realistically

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  trash pits and open sewers. Privileged members of society socialize at an ... first of the five houses in which we collected measurements. At any moment ... took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... recommend you loft your bed, and loft it high. My fear of heights—at least ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... . At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  . When they asked what he did, I said he'd dropped out of MIT to work at a ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022