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  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to ... time on academics, focus on trying to find a living group that best fits

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was ... here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call it an honor. And unlike in high school, where there are a lot of other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and ... to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... hitting refresh to find out their decision. The tables turn again--once we've admitted a class of students, we begin to court them once more. Shiny tubes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick ... it best to start with a modern day adventure story about a company that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films. On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... fight to outrun a faceless threat. It’s been challenging to feel creative ... remedy I know. So it’s no surprise that I find myself returning to my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... something else instead. Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a ... MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  finding somebody with a key to the door I shoved it open and we breached ... whoever you see." Conner 2 is lucky to have a roof that's accessible from ... (I tried to place myself into the mindset of a war reporter, covering

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  play, i noticed a pattern that i was not able to explain at the time: although each player started with 200 lives, if there was ever a round where ... have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... experience will make available to you. Maybe you'll find a professor to do some ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  that a 2400 on the SAT is not necessary, you will probably try to find ... addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... , according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me ... excitement. Actually, there's been too much excitement for me to find the time to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... ’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... have wide chalk.) When learning, I find that it's easiest to grip it even

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  to just trying to find time to rest but really not...getting any. This ... get extremley red and I would scratch it to the point where my skin ... . This past weekend, when it kind of cleared up, I decided to take a day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... where he gives Siegfried a drug that makes him fall in love with Gutrune

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it ... of wall paint, as well a box set of acrylic paint tubes that you'd find

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014