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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  thought I was travelling to Europe. I did not understand why, until I sat ... rush. At CPW, everyone seemed to be working on something, and that may have swayed me toward MIT, but access to research was not the deciding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  . Not only that, but a group of us converged in the kitchen, all excited ... . Not much of a story, but I had to share it because it highlights the ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  are pretty much set on going to CPW with me, how is that going to work ... how CPW worked." bonbon wrote, "I'm with debbie are we staying mostly ... ). ------------------------------------- Melissa wrote, "Not a question to Matt, but can one of the bloggers write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  ="no, untangling a human knot will not portend how well a team can untangle a work ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not ... the spot, so they can opt in (or not) on their own time and comfort

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  major requirements you have and have not completed; handy for making sure ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not ... preregister for classes that you're even vaguely interested in?"]not preregister

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post ... is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here ... . Tropes, all the way from 1996. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are ... increasing exponentially in MA every day (not hyperbole: the numbers literally ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , he was an inspiration, not only intellectually but personally ... not only the curriculum of his iconic MIT engineering course 2.007 to ... I got to know him well while working at MIT, he surprised me by being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  really am not the type of person that would willingly spend the first ... that kind of dedication, you can't not go to something you've spent ... to see how all of our hard work would pan out. The Muslim Students

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  more. All of these awesome people have been working on a ton of events! We just wanted to highlight two that we think you really should NOT ... has a really large courtyard. When it’s not freezing outside, people eat

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  , which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good/not ... sculpture) opened up, but it was not there before, I swear.... 2. You learn ... guarded and managed by magical creatures How do you not hear the phrases

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about ... fears do not really grow. It is just a new day, and we should be able to ... this country seems separating. But this is not caused by Trump. The US is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go ... either a P - “Pass” (!) or a DN - D, but not recorded or an FN - F, not recorded Which are both pretty much okay, since you’re a freshman

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  before because... eh, who cares why? It's not central to this story. I ... while, he's my third-most played artist, and the exact year is not ... with somebody's depression. (I did not want to live with somebody

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now ... this EA decision. It may not feel like it if you get in, and you're not ... pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  ’t always make smart decisions. we compete for free food and not for a high ... . think of fit, not merit. i’m not an expert, but i think that matters more ... year green is not a creative color, a video that escalates quickly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ). I'm now sitting at home, trying to relax but not quite, because there is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... to just LET. LOOSE. and jump on everything not class related. I'm not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  helped me. The morphine had helped me. Not God. I felt crushed and angry ... was not just me. It was the homeless man repeatedly stumbling into the ... was leaving my home, not headed to it. In four weeks I had developed an

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011