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  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  sighting of the dome! We’re close. We arrive at the check in place in the ... drop it at 8 PM, but there were A LOT of bouncy balls. Sadly, I couldn ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  still "distributed" at the end, with a certain percentage of the class ... science works). Economics wasn't offered at my school, but I decided to take ... finally read Marquez (or, at least, some of it, haha). Most of the course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog ... that documents my time here at mit...but i'm really lazy and it ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... flow of things, to figure out how classes work at MIT without having to ... could have been, though at the time I didn’t think that much of it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  lot of concepts that I had at least looked at before, but almost none of ... was a terrible idea. At the end of the first semester I had to scramble ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... "] whoosh dramatics[/caption] At the risk of sounding like an absolute nerd ... when I have to give mine back at the end of the year, but I'm still

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  Mid-Year Grade Report until the middle of February and at the same time ... highest levels at MIT with bad knowledge of English?" Yes, there are many ... Jones, dean of admissions at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., said she has

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  6 at night when a new string of puzzles were published to the internet ... "Character Witness" and consisted solely of a PDF file, which you can look at ... standing next to a container of dodgeballs. We had done it! At 3 in the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... , instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  that abound at MIT. In the classroom: 8.21 - Physics of ... At a press briefing at the White House on Monday, MIT President Susan ... " new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  be the exact colors of my room in East Campus. At 11 pm we get another ... look at the new blue frit, standing out on top of the old white dots ... first." At the end of all my babble I don't even know what I've said. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have ... blinds and a cup of water handy. My sister informed me that my parents at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  Science), at its heart, is broken down into three separate portions of a ... -fledged major that is one of many offered by the Electrical Engineering and ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  , representing one of their student groups at the Activities Fair, problem sets ... social life at MIT begins. I originally met two of my closest friends ... of the people I originally met at CPW. So seriously, meet as many

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  courses. Last year, at the undergraduate level, 36% of engineering majors and 51% of science majors at MIT were women (as were 51% of humanities ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... like this. I've run into a lot of instances at MIT where someone says ... other places sometimes will let these kinds of comments go, but at MIT we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021