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• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... leapt out of bed and answered the door. Figure out the damage. On the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language…and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as ... , but don’t overplan. CPW was one of the most memorable weekends of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the ... "]electrical engineer of the hardware variety.[/annotation]  In my era, MIT had ... breaking off to become the new College of Computing, my how things have

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab ... this thing called the Lagrangian and The Principle of Least Action that ... , the lecture on Monday was on some of the basics of differential geometry

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my ... few pedestrians as well, so walking on the streets is kind of lonely ... most of the skyline, not some scraggly palm trees on the side of the road

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am ... part was Sadoway was moving fast. Not lightning fast, but the kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I'm far too lazy to go to the basement of the student center and put money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... of Soft Matter." Even though I'd never be able to take the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I ... the superposition of all the little solutions. It's not that hard to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... : Grab some popcorn and escape the stress of this world for the stress of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... the hell out of my room. Coming up in the next three weeks with ... I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three ... doing QR as my full-time job i’d likely end up discovering parts of the ... . the part of their work which i'm excited about is developing ai tools

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Theme I've been looking at too many de-motivational posters!

  

  Because it seems to be the theme of Paul's blog.

  • by Snively '11
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs ... among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... . 9-5, morning coffees, the whole shamwow. I've been doing a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022