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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  probably included. During my own preview weekend, I went to an event where ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection ... parts of them). Pretty intense eh? Biochemistry labs Where I spent

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  . When I was taking 6.01, there was one day where I was hosed beyond belief ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  .nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions ... ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... , and luge. And I can imagine each team that submitted their own board

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... obligated by social norms to stay right where you are. I looked desperately ... circumstances that faced me. A promise that I felt could only be realized if in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... most seven things per semester. I don't know where I originally heard ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... in your life when you can. If you write your best papers the night

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember--mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free ... production in some way, but I was so focused on solving the problem that I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... , obvious, but it really wasn't something I did before, not in any serious

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014