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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... students, IHTFP has meant both during different times in the year. Before you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... , compassionate human being who plays well in the sandbox with others and is ... -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April ... totally mind-boggling. This whole "weather in which you can actually stand in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , pumpkin drop (pumpkins falling from the tallest building in Cambridge ... , in a car, in your stereotypical scary movie setting. An intersection in ... readers, to bring you entertainment and distraction in your final hours

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  in at MIT if..." you love being miserable! Now wait just a second ... and wake up in a bath tub full of ice, your kidneys removed, and a pile of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really ... . Nevertheless, Big Cuz Q stepped in and has been providing some advice on the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on ... try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... totally in favor of a professor calling me Master Snively. "What an ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  transportation stuff Public transportation in Boston is not as great as it is in ... stops at 77 Massachusetts Avenue and goes to Harvard Square in one direction and across the river to Dudley Station in the other. As an MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  requirements Because of these unique facts, which have not been present in any ... want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... , leaving Boston for a little weekend trip in New York or New Hampshire

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror, looking at nearly forty-year-old man in the mirror, where a bright ... this, and so much more?— When the blogs were created in 2004, the i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  covered in this liveblog by Janet and Kayode, and you can watch the ... . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... powered respirator for wildland firefighters, in MIT's biggest auditorium

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in ... view of the sunrise (in the rare moments where we've been awake for it ... love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... ="aligncenter" width="1920"] the first family dinner![/caption] That dinner occurred in ... –at Su-Miao Hunanese Restaurant. [annotation note="In true Hunanese fashion

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker ... !! You can listen to WMBR @ 88.1FM on the radio in the greater Boston area ... great shows, like Bats in the Belfry, The Hot Rat Sessions, The..., and of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake ... potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those ... today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... increased yield in recent years, while our target class size has remained the ... D students in Mechanical Engineering."]someday you’ll look back on this Pi Day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting ... need to have in order to graduate."]7.014[/annotation] to my schedule. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their ... else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022