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  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago ... arrived! 11:13am: It has started to rain. Lots of umbrellas on the campus ... you design a pinball machine for a nursing home?" Kevin '11: "No! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... . As promised, Sam showed up wearing a suit, holding a giant box of ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... middle of homework. We had a team of roughly 25 students calling students

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging, but hey, we're MIT students, right? :D So you've probably heard of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of ... 'll definitely hear of online book exchanges (MIT411.com used to be one of them ... the book that you need, then you can get it off of Amazon.com. Worst

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  mentions, bits and pieces of cars’ design may be taken up and incorporated ... First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this ... 's gotten into me :( Second: this weekend is going to be EXCITING! I know of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to ... smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  semester of MIT. I offer the analogy that MIT semesters give large pillars of ... 's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  during school, though of course all the details have changed i still ... in school a lot of my blogs could be considered rationality ... in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  school could be, these were the types of things i could only dream of doing ... high school, the period of my life where i felt like i "became a person ... some people some photos and one of the grad school friends coming through

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  Magazine, MIT's fashion and design publication. Since then, little has ... . All of the [annotation note="we use the word spread to refer to one coherent project, usually taking up 5-10 pages of the magazine

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take on math and science because it was one of those all-girls schools. Yes

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  grown out of medical schools, where researchers could tap a ready pool of ... opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  conference rooms for group design meetings as well as a couple of labs for ... present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , there is a wide variety of places around campus where you can get your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  , Director Of Design - Undergraduate Program, MIT Department of Architecture ... I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had ... of high school was one of the worst years of my life so far. I had a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over 15 years of experience in the financial aid and student financing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  support and friendship of high school seniors was super cool. Because you went to an alternative school, you also got to teach a class, Joy of ... made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015