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  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  say, both of these desires were fulfilled. I arrived at MIT around 8 AM ... (CPW activities booklet), 15% discount at the COOP, $20.12 worth of Tech ... behind us, and he offered to have someone give us a tour of 5th East. SWEET

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister ... that window, I'd never seen such a massive place. At the entrance of ... friends at MIT, and Rafael, the boy at the end of the hall, who I now know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  barely edited this blog post at all, as, like the rest of the student body ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly ... animals at the foot of my bed, the Tweety Bird bedsheets –   You ... wild with dreams of making a huge discovery at the lab and becoming super

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... 's Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician. It takes a keen look at the stressors ... at Amazon. Some of your responses: Valentina (Bogota, Columbia): How

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  Pot Pie was stunning, sort of like the 100-page rant at the end of Atlas ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... evening class, which was very relaxing because at the end of my class day, I ... all of us having played pickleball at least once before (and tennis not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... was at the Burton-Conner boat cruise! No. Not this. This. Here ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... -ins? None that I've heard of. From my experience, there are so many things at ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  : How often do people at MIT take these things? Well, some of you might ... the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  the lab of Professor Jianzhu Chen at the MIT Center for Cancer Research ... spend the summer of 2005 at NIST, studying the use of optical tweezers to ... 5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  question below: The vast majority of crime at MIT is committed by non ... the other.) Finally, it is safe to roam campus at all hours of the ... the ring (RingComm) is selected at the end of freshman year, they design

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006