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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  walked a fine line that weekend between not sleeping and feeling bad about ... weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... place that shovels snow for you. I’ve learned to love the ups and downs

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  at nights to help out with rush and recruiting freshmen for my ... efficient with your time -- time-management doesn't work for everybody, and it ... just enough so that those moments are few and far between. I think

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  , lightsabers, trap doors, and moving AT-AT legs, beyond "Don't Cry For Me ... the show next weekend and don't want it ruined for you. You've been ... Rather than working on the 12-page paper on green fluorescent protein

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  freezing cold) - and how scared I was at beginning this class for the last ... and their youth for the things they were passionate about. Now, as a ... sometime between May 1 and May 15 I will be doing the same again (albeit no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for ... account was just billed for tuition and you owe MIT 5 numbers before the ... pay for, put some in savings, and budget the rest as you feel fit. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  to make their voices heard. Not only for the '12 freshmen, but also ... As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it was a great community where I still hang out and pset at frequently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  : Media Theories and Methods, the introductory course for the Comparative ...  side of MIT, and especially love their nexus, MIT's Center for Civic Media ... MIT as an undergraduate, she did come here for grad school, and now she

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  . Admittedly, it's a relief to step away from college for a few days and taste ... : And whatever the picture doesn't say, Maggie '12 probably said it in her ... I will not blog. Once this dark time had passed, Paul '12 and I led a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will be releasing decisions for transfer students next Wednesday, 12/21. Emily Sheldon, who coordinates transfer admissions for our office, will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  chemistry or brain and cog sci isn't for you. Impatient? Hate doing grunt work ... easy for you and bore you to death. Some majors cover some really ... someone picked one major that was right for them and did it well, learned it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  were strange, angsty and pervasive, and in the months between Crazier and ... The Outside and for a moment, I was certain that she had dug inside my head, explored my weird mushy state of being, and penned those words for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  Reggaeton hits for hours and hours of dancing fun! Sabrosura was AMAZING ... that, deliciousness and tastefulness. (MIT Student Center, Lobdell ... menu, there was a smorgasbord of amazing food from both Peru and the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  of each other for Instagram, and the second couple immediately did the ... there is plenty of time for me to keep writing and looking around. I leave ... , went back to my seat and napped for an hour or two. Perhaps six and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from ... the department and the Institute. You must be available from 12-1:00 pm ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  remote teams, and everything in between. While we’re all hunting for many ... puzzles above and below Searching for something new The last puzzle ... , and organize an event for thousands of people. To my knowledge, though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  intern for Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair. I essentially design social media posts and do some ~research~ like things for MSEF and it ... between urgent reminders to please for god's sake do your psets you dirty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... survived (an almost perfect metaphor for tooling at MIT). Cory and I bought

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so ... placed "somewhere in between Spanish 2 and 3." I then opted to take Spanish 3, try it for a week, and if it's too difficult, drop into Spanish 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020