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  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... well-matched host for the weekend. Tonight, we had a meeting with the MIT ... your host about your needs for the weekend, the help that you'd like, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... day. I can't remember for the life of me if this painting was by ... and the blogger fam for the great study break, and here's to many more!

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside ... Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for the summer or look over my resume, all without “holding my hand ... ’ve always wondered what the GEL staff looks for in its students, so this will ... for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  freshman doors. I painted a sign for my sister (yes, it looks like a ... French House occupies the top two floors of House 6 (one of the six towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  're in Kansas for the Design/Build/Fly competition, and after unpacking our ... conspicuous lack of an airplane. "The MIT team looks like they're all freshmen ... time for tech inspection. Final assembly in the parking lot   Tech

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one ... crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different ... machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with laser cutters or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist illuminati responsible for the common core 2) I'm trying to learn to spin ... are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can write clearly and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  the grill and waited for what looked like a giant space-burger to cook ... , especially for an MIT student), settling onto the plan and watching the ground ... with camp gear and two more friends and set out for the great outdoors

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  here for what is now over nine weeks, the longest I've ever been away ... went black, except for a little triangle at the bottom, through which I ... continually looking for service and runs out of charge in about 12 hours. And

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... introduce random concepts we would need for the rest of the class. Lecture is ... based on the class--for 18.02 they take attendance but I haven't tested if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... women were respected for the work that they did: And the 1896 yearbook ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... still red, etc. What the heck? The obvious next step: look at the screen ... 't become different colors. For example, what looked pinkish face-on became a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  summer air. For a while, the heat is relentless and then, all at once, it ... , and for a little while, the river. When I reach home, the heat comes ... the full-body collapse. Colors dim until they all look the same. There

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , I'm not graduating. Yes, I'm in the dorm for the summer. Yes, I'm in ... ? Undergraduate What color underwear do you have on right now? [For the record, it ... , towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  On the day before my non-senior friends left for home, we went out on ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... Meet the Bloggers, a glorious event for which we are required to wear t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  as the "international symbol for Frank O. Gehry architecture." This is what the actual building looks like. ...not entirely unlike the much ... 'm not sure who came up with the idea of a windowless brick cylinder for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  neuroscience research, who was looking for an assistant that summer. Life lesson ... . It was scary. The morning I left home for Albuquerque was the same morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  them look deceptively simple. Take, for example, one of this year ... team members are tallied for a country team score. This year, the top ... international olympiads, and not just for the US but also international students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... questions always go? (2:12-2:42): "So then, that is all for the moment ... bloggers" tab on the MITAdmissions website. I wanted this to be my official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024