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  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... Galaxy Well, I'm not your mother (thank you Captain Obvious) and you ... you. Yes, that means you, pre-froshes! And I will be very sad if you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  , and open as possible. That's why I tend to believe that most of the so ... amazing advice and assistance: my parents. From August until December, my ... deadlines, boosted my spirits and my confidence when I felt overwhelmed. She

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... thinking. And self reflection. And learning. i've concluded my junior year ... decision. I was offered the opportunity to study Sociology and Anthropology

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  pleasant waters. It had its several current peaks and rocky outbursts ... school’s ultra-small math olympiad class, and spent a significant number of ... invariants, number theory and unruly combinatorics problems. In eleventh grade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  , then the Massachusetts state exam the weekend after that, and then the ... EMS service. Every Saturday for the past three months or so, I and ... ambulance!! Her name is Jolene. It’s free for students to call and get care

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  The cherry blossoms are out and the students are slipping onto Kresge Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  , Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in ... like I could control. I could study hard and get grades and I could apply myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  , and Social Sciences"]HASS[/annotation] classes this semester ... note="Games and Culture"]CMS.616,[/annotation] and [annotation note ... and I haven't really been stressed whatsoever (subtle flex lol) so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  at historically black colleges and universities across the US. There ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... , entertainment and media as an industry, and the power of a holiday special. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  - sapporo cambridge" /] you walk into h-mart and see the paris baguette cafe immediately to your left, and go-go curry straight ahead. all around are tv ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  audience was mostly high school juniors and sophomores but there were also ... , we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question ... on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  technician and joined the MIT student volunteer service. There are quite a few ... morning and tennis practice from 5-7pm, I usually end up taking the ... with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  " edition)! Michigan Sunday, September 7, 2008 9:00am. I wake up, and go ... how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10 ... over my presentation for a bit, then stretch my legs and walk around for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as ... status and keep that financial aid coming"]minimum number of units ... handed me his camera, and I thought he wanted me to take a picture of him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having ... down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

    It’s (well, it was, at the time of writing) IAP, and all the ... Bad Ideas Weekend, which includes things like running up and down the ... !!! Joy made juggling balls that embodied pain, fear, and frostbite. We also

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... , two Final Fantasy 7 novellas, and I Am A Cat by Natsume Souseki. The only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  University of Cambridge. And yes, none of these were really rejections to be ... , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... literally the hardest experience of my MIT career, and how I dealt very poorly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  adapting the story, because the comic universe and the show universe are ... I'm gonna be honest: I've written and deleted and re-written and ... deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021