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  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  doubt getting some sort of degree in Course 7 with her award ... managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  the Charles River, Next House offers stunning views of the riverfront ... beautiful courtyard over which many of the rooms look. Next House offers a ... I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a pharmaceutical company in Boston (a lot of people take a year or two off between

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... taking a lot of classes over a wide variety of disciplines. These are known

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  admit rate of 10%, or about one of every ten applicants. We have offered a ... together a class. I know I speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a very difficult admissions process because of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... so saw the Class of 2020 arrive on campus for their orientation, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... find out whether or not certain friends of mine - from across the nation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... a great time and had some good crews (was voted EARC coach of the year

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  of art, the transparent front of the ICA offered a panorama of the ... before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018