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  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... you've all been picturing it in your heads all summer and are just dying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6 ... . :-) What can you tell me about next fall's Orientation and Pre ... the major factor in whether or not we choose you. The quality and

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... -purpose parts of the brain and mind. Q. Can you tell us about an undergraduate course that you teach? A. In my undergrad course students go straight to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  .More stuff: Can *you* curve a chunk of wood like this?Here is a CNC Router ... around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place ... week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  feel dizzy as the fluid in your ears becomes heavier; if you drink only ... stop people from drinking it. Methanol can blind and kill you. Other ... ??: 1/10 “You’d probably throw up before you can drink enough for anything

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  Corridor. Maybe you'll get to see MIThenge.   Eat in the ... this term can be found here; it might be best to sit in on freshman ... -- so, girls, come on an overnight so you can stay with me and stare at my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... really be in our romanticism era. One month later, with an Airbnb booked ... month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  the fall term through January - or you can take crash courses in pottery ... this entry, it should be that. And that you can see your breath in igloos ... anything, anything at all in the store, without even knowing you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... building 8. At this point, you can take a jag left, then right, and find

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  that; can you explain it again?"; and "wait, WHAT?!" Questions I asked in mainstream classes in an entire semester? 0. You get a lot more comfortable ... you can talk to them and ask questions, but in ESG it's even easier to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  general may seem now - you can and will find yourselves equal to it. Sometimes, that may take more effort than others. But you can do it. In every ... 't matter very much in the long run) - but rather because if you come to MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  , no one ever uses her. That means that whenever you call her, you can ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  decision applications. I can only tell you to be yourself. MIT wants to hear the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to ... about that stuff. It provides much-needed context that can often set you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  subject is that while not every building at MIT might look "good" to you in ... , very different from buildings you see elsewhere. That's more than I can ... canoeing. See, creatures really can live in the Charles. See, people at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a ... those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  play Guitar Hero -you can't take anything into the GRE testing area, including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you ... DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  *gettingallthepiledupworkdoneafteranentireweekendofhavingtoomuchfun*cough* :P As usual, let any of us know if we can help you in any way to make ... them as guest blogs! Don't worry too much about format - I can help you ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at ... I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means ... on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... . Nothing gold can stay. etc. etc. etc.  We obviously couldn’t leave without

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021