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• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  figuring out where to live, so don't worry TOO much about it. CPW is about ... ! Which is a pretty remarkable nerd collection that you can peruse whenever ... Electronics Research Society", though to be honest that name is a bit of a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , but sometimes, I feel like responding: Dear MIT, You know how much my graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... classes. While that in itself is a tremendous feat, there is much more that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy ... ; Ultimately, not only did I end up learning how to use the gym, but I got a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... ’ve had a lot of successes (at least judging by how quickly my cookies ... brownies featured on Oprah were a disaster in my hands. But, if there is one

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a special, less ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  external validation is less appropriate is reading too much into what an ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is ... second round of waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute ... substrate of my emotion and the v_max is how much I could possibly be ... particle is at that exact temperature; instead, as a whole it's that specific

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  where you’ll be attending college. In reality, that is such a small part ... attention was trained on fall of 2015. For me (like I think it is for a lot of ... through it? Answering questions like these is the work of a lifetime. It is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT ... anyway, so I have no abundance of people to help me. The professor is a ... are things I could learn/do on my own time without much penalty). It is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year ... is that you get a masters in just 1 additional year, but right now my ... 'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  ), what I’m left with is theoretically how much the consumer base values ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... through this school, which is why I'm able to enjoy a (relatively) relaxing ... important my relationships are to me, and how much I'll miss them. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner, DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In front of him is a two-way mirror through which a nervous-looking aardvark

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it's next to the Prudential Center.) Admission is free if you have a Student Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  am. Believing that for every good person there is a much more wealthy ... HATE HOW THIS IS NORMAL. HOW WE KNOW WHAT TO DO. HOW THIS IS JUST LIFE ... SO SO SO MUCH. WHY….. why am I still doing this? I think a younger me

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... is a total game-changer...guitar is such a wonderful way for me to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  (it has been near three years, how fast time flows!) With happiness and excitement replete Looking back now, 'though it hasn't been long It's a marvel to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  a person is not knowing how to separate work and life. During school ... process of creating a remake. I could go on about how meta this is, and how ... ="capitalism is a fucking scam and is going to ruin my life by stressing me out very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020