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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  learning, how to present in front of audiences, how to write personal essays ... realize just how much more there is for me to learn in order to truly be ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you academically and culturally. How do I get around campus? What if I want to go ... lost walking to Pika late at night in the cold, and was unsure how to use

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to ... intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... on how good the food is.  “Oh yeah, that’s Phillip Isola!” Ali said to ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  sacrifice your true passions to get that A in French, but at what cost? Let ... - I think it's always good to check in with a school between getting ... in the world. An anonymous poster asked how to email me - it's benjones

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... , written for a large audience with widespread interests. Great for getting a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  special program that teaches new immigrants how to speak English. In his ... material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... roommates at MIT. In addition to helping with the Infinity camp in June, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... about how MIT students spent their days in classes, clubs, or hobbies, so ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  watching out for me here in getting me this job. Although I really wanted to ... teaches you how to be a good leader as well as a good team player. I don ... MIT. I'm super excited to see how our project develops! 6.S898

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  that I've had in a very, very long time - it was great to see all of East ... though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... them looked something like this. In the week or so leading up to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who ... last final and January 3 in Taiwan - and then right after, I came back to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  things to say about everyone else. Really, we all loved being in that room ... well, because I did get two parts in said play, The Vagina Monologues. I ... , being an actress in VagMo was not particularly taxing. We didn’t have to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  learned how to collect oral histories (read: interviews), access the MIT ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was ... ’t participate in it, but it’ll always be there if you want your social life to be ... ’d asked to help us get the event started had had different ideas. We ended

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  to get out of my room other than just getting lunch and getting tested ... people reached out to me to ask me how i'm doing, and i'm so, so glad for ... -pressed to find another place to stay in, and that's something i'm grateful for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take ... list of things one ought to do in order to get in. Do note that they don ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  wanted to but couldn’t!); you guys are great, and I really hope you find ... Infinite and through Dorm Row, we managed to get every single hot dog eaten ... rare opportunity, the world outside of Senior Haus got to see how lovely

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017