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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  with after CPW, having now lived through 3 CPW’s. Hopefully, those who ... Economics or something ??), so everyone’s strong STEM background intimidated ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... of what comes (like a chatty stranger in an elevator) but that’s ... that it all flows logically, but I suspect that there’s more chance and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  it! So I`ll share what`s on my mind. I guess this is a book report, kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... life seems depressing. What`s the point, I wonder. Especially if I can be

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s ... urchins for the first time and adolescence. It’s a short, satisfying five ... previous intro writing classes, and this was one of my favorites. It’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  for a couple weeks it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us ... hive in an unusual location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9m6MoS43k4 Here’s what it means to us to [annotation note="bee?"]be[/annotation] an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  saw Wicked on opening night with two friends (Caitlin O. ‘25 and Oris S ... note='this is me speaking to myself lmfao']let’s calm down a little bit ... ; THE UNVEILED HUMAN EXPERIENCE   There’s something extraordinary

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... think that’s what poems are supposed to do, and I think it’s what the ... I found this in my living group’s library and started it on a whim. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  . So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The ... understatement here, I might be a tad…scared? It’s literally everything I’ve been ... ="Think of a mix of Audrey’s angsty vibes mixed with Cami’s willingness to call

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  correct about most things, and she’s correct about this: summer slips away ... . ii. It’s my birthday today. It does not feel too different from any ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  spent our last two Valentine’s Days there. They had breakfast ramen, y ... chapter. So, to commemorate the Friendly Toast, here’s the scene, [annotation note="It’s a first draft, so please forgive any awkward sentences. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack ... Portal Wait, what’s this puzzle you guys keep mentioning? Our puzzle ... all of the puzzle’s components gain automatic admission to HackMIT in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to ... first week. Let’s just say that I’m an unrecognizable skier. I obviously ... Mountain (also Chris Peterson’s home mountain!!!), and we’re on the first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that’s ... sciences. It’s completely undergraduate-run, but produced with support from ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... recommend (and here’s what I said last year): Write your essays before ... character. Describe yourself (see 3). (For more, here’s who MIT wants.) Have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... . Here’s what I found out: Process It might look like I am sketching cows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  homepage. I’d encourage you all to watch it if you’re interested--it’s pretty ... concept (let’s use integrals as an example). Your teacher talks about ... . Most people get B’s. Some get A’s. Sometimes a lot get A’s. Some get C’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... movement, changed the public’s view of space exploration, and encouraged

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  unintentionally (I'm working on this whole photogenic thing).   P.S. Victory! Beat the Sunday at midnight deadline :) P.S.S. Welcome new ... this year! P.S.S.S. I don't know why YouTube isn't letting me pick a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  roasted apartment in Boston. Fantasies aside, it’s a fact that many MIT ... , read all of the Arthur books, and played Arthur’s Reading Games on the PC ... project I’m working on at WGBH is PBS LearningMedia, which is PBS and WGBH’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012