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• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world ... offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in ... crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... guest-speakers at the event, when I myself had been a prefrosh sitting in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  sorrow.    my last words stifle in the knots of my throat, so i ... shouldn’t) care about. it helps me ground myself in the truth that if i zoom ... have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  the implications of the affordable care act and universal health care in ... This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  two weeks after my interview, I was offered a spot in CodeIt. Training ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I remembered. When the CodeIt application opened up in late August, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... in 8.01! and boy, did we mcHeckin SUFFER. we spent t h r e e hours on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... the United States had twenty years ago. We live in a connected global ... his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a ... Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in various locations around the world"]GTL[/annotation] in Kazakhstan, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would ... , despite enjoying liking coding and writing it out and basking in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving ... site that Ben Jones created, where we could all check in and get to know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  tragedy that had occured that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in ... undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other ... own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... changes in gender role and expectation over the past two decades and the ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... sentimental. It reads poorly. It clambers around in naivety, sending any ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  thrive in a cook-for-yourself community. H offered up some kitchens and ... because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... leaned in to see beyond the thick column ahead. The clock struck four

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016