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  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Coast when you know you'll be living there. As my mom drove me from ... enough job summarizing:Dry ice drinks.Massive Twister game.Break dancing.Me ... told me they were on YouTube, and I'd definitely recommend checking them

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  By Celena Chan '12 So here I am, writing this, and it just hits me ... me if I was from LA. Close, but not that close. Apparently, there had ... ? Me: Uh¡­yes? Qichen: It's Qichen, from facebook. Me: OMG! The girl that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  : Stephen, me, Sway, and her friend Jenny Scholarship: From L to R: Stu Schmill, Kim Vandiver (Dean for Undergrad Research), and me ???: < ... -Conner (the BC folks gave me a mini beach ball, which my cat loves). After

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  blind faith, this seminar seemed particularly interesting to me. The two ... questions, rather than someone like me, who wasn't actually looking for a ... did provide some interesting food for thought which should keep me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  arrive at Hunt Headquarters. Somebody give me something to do.... Friday ... 's the font the Asgard uses on its menu!" Me: "Oh my God I've SEEN that movie! I would have KNOWN that!" (This is a huge accomplishment for me. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME ... attending Taiwanese schools. When my parents decided to transfer me to an ... REAL bubble tea everyday? So it really hit me when I logged on to the MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... me 6 whole minutes of sleep passed out on the floor in my clothes. In a fetal position. So for me, dreaming is just about the most awesome thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me ... the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact ... help me out if it's a rough week and sleep is not up there on the ... seriously. Freshman year would have been a lot more difficult for me if I hadn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  course). I read them both, which made me feel accomplished. =) My spring ... . Basically, youth group was really important to me for a long time, and I ... down to stay with me for the rest of the week. We're going to spend lots

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  "tecker." Don't sue me please? =) Shannon: hahahahahaha I loved the ... think you're cool! hehe Jessica, let me tell you something about bloggers ... comfortable that i would be rejected no stress now aon me. but anyway if the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... everyone, I mean me. Freshman fall was great, because [annotation note ... ’t hard 😭. I think the biggest challenge so far for me has been that PSet

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... glance. Then... my friend messaged me with some other interesting classes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... had to stay, when really nobody but me cared. Next was the interview ... wanted to sit there. [annotation note = "The interviewer literally told me

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  have been old enough that the doctors stopped calling me brave. In ... and see my friend. The time crunch told me I couldn’t do anything that ... ’t affect me. I know that they’ll heal. When pain is temporary, it is only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  maybe people can give me their insight and help me with my choice ... myself further on Deafness and Deaf culture. Pros: Forces me to continue ... . Everyone absolutely raves to me about this class telling me how great it is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  idyllic view of MIT, and I carried this with me for the most part, which ... and resulted in me mainly looking at the positive elements without any ... it was for me, so remember there's nothing wrong with taking a break to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... many of us are experiencing, the pandemic and quarantine has made me ... recognition in this blog post. I've found that it's really hard for me to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  made me cry multiple times. Here's a graph I made after I finished, with ... switching in. Danny now has to struggle through 18.01A without me, but I'm rooting for him! He sent me a video of him sadly crossing my name off of his

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  friends who all told me that over the summer they’d been going through ... probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... “theory” behind MBTI. Fellow blogger Erick P. ‘17 kindly sent me this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017