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  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  center to visit a certain open house that I was anxiously waiting for. Meet ... to Kresge Auditorium for the closing ceremony. After a few words from ... scenes on the spot without a moment of pause. I relaxed for the rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  . I went home a few weeks ago for a weekend, since I won't be going home ... apple corer and a set of utensils. I've been drinking cereal from the bowl ... sad and felt trapped for a long time until I got a new one. This one is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay ... , for instance, I had to write that my cumulative GPA was a 3.5, even ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... is ostensibly a CPW entry, I guess I should talk about my CPW. Overall

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  a cliff. I was just a breath away from the main highway they'd started ... can't tell you honestly where I'm headed. I don't know that much. I do ... all this for Arecibo or if I just copied and pasted from some college

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... I take a break and then work from 10p to past midnight until I feel ... words from one of my mentors, Kim, is a compass I hold closely - “Do what

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... the song where I was singing "one plus one minus one plus..." for a ... MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  ="this comes from a field called narratology, which i am very much glossing over ... , I decided to write this one based on the song "MTA", where a man named ... . On the other hand, I had been working on the second story for a while

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  still seems like too weighty a decision for a single Google Form. i ... deviation from a monotonous mid-pandemic life in suburban New Hampshire. i ... Israel this summer? i'm doing MEET, a program where MIT students teach

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  're looking for a testament to how awesome rats can be, here are some rats ...  molecular modeling kits. Here's one of them! Why would I ever ask for such a thing ... time. I've made a habit of beginning to study for orgo 2, which has a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (and the occassional Wii game) that I've always loved, from A Knight ... exchange that I had a lot of fun participating in. I don't remember where I ... defining book of my childhood Squids will be Squids. From there we have a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  syndrome from me. I was going to write a blog post about it, but I couldn ... I can now read blog posts from OpenAI and understand at least some of ... crisis. "I don't have a choice in this; I can't seriously pursue a career

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... from something better: 'Cause all my life, I've seen these skies It

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... 're looking for admissions officer blogs, look no further than MyMIT, where you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  because I thought the elevator was cool. You can wave instead of pressing a ... -campus, instead of a dorm five minutes away from my classes? I might've cooked ... , which I learned from 6.390 Introduction to Machine Learning. For each node

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was ... !), against a team from astrophysics. And before that, I was coming back from a ... , which I think is a bit more clever and less Fox News-y. For the history of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  things I can think of. I'm looking forward to a future with a Glass/Fit Bit ... , I have a largely different definition of how much living space is ... it's probably still infeasible from a financial point of  view the news

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to ... I grew a lot from each writing assignment. [caption id ... ] decked out for Christmas! Along the way, my friends and I also saw a giant

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  because I saw so few students, or because I've been away from campus for ... about that. I saw people from a few different groups in the past month ... Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn't a pandemic, I wouldn't be able

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  week ago, I hosted a live where I played guitar and sang and answered a ... Shayna A. '23 where we basically sat in a Zoom room for an hour and chatted ... and I loved every second of it. We also held a Logo Voting contest for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020