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• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  of you this weekend. Tonight at 8 PM, we have an event called “Meet the ... , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I can belong at MIT, so can you. I’m good at all of that! Over the years I

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  colorful Paint pictures, though. So at the end of the two-hybrid (which ... -- oftentimes there aren't so many degrees of separation between people. ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  -eyed Dennis-ness. For even if life throws thousands of lemons at you, curve ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... now, on display at the front of the Harvard COOP. Gross! I urge you to ... . Well, at least most people don’t. I had no idea what kind of people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  at the end of the semester. Oh, by the way, I am pretty sure Professor ... /opening up python consists of me screaming at a computer to stop messing up ... Two weeks of class have already flown by. Problem sets are perpetual

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  graduated. At graduation, one of the traditions at MIT is for all the ... Cambridge and Boston skylines on the sides of the ring: while you're at MIT ... In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  brains are somewhat bad at understanding the value of the things we have and exceptionally good at wandering into pools of regret the example ... sent home during march of my first year at mit, i spent many months at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... years ago). John Everett, MIT class of 1976 — who learned to row at MIT in ... opportunities to experience life fully, they look at them as a test of their self

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last ... 't eat enough, they get frustrated and depressed, but at the end of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of ... , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... to any of my fellow MIT students.  My first week at MIT, my grandfather

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  . At least a few hours. Try to visit most of the dorms! Even if there ... of the river. Call your parents at some point over the weekend ... students are a better indication of what it’ll be like at MIT, so get to know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  , really. But at the same time, it goes straight to the heart of what it ... I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  slice of vegetable-topped focaccia and motioned at the bread with the ... at the slowness of my Spanish dredged up word by word, but I think ... sensation of depth augmented by Meta’s Depth Anything v7) that at a glance I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I found a position at the Center of Biomedical TB Research at Wits ... caught a glimpse of it in my tour guide at Constitution Hill, a man who

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  of really interesting classes that were being offered. I finally chose ... wanted to take at least one history class every semester for the rest of my ... . For one thing, some of the closest bonds I have been able to make at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... adventures along the river or at dances— they're real. I could write that post ... dances. Recently, I've had dearth of dances: This semester's place permits

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022