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  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  miss out on! Next Big Thing Presents: The aMAZEing Space Are you sick of ... Thing, the aMAZEing Space. 1,920 Square Feet of adventure, wrong turns, and galactic conquest awaits in the Next House courtyard. Next house

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the 44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  transportation twice (or more) a week? As a senior mostly done with the requirements for my major, I decided that this fall semester was the perfect time ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... taking the exam at 1pm. I went through all the problems, thinking hard ... catch a break. I'm getting a little tired of the "studying harder than I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you all! I’m Selam, the newest new blogger, and I’ve just joined the team this IAP. This is pretty exciting, because I have always read the ... ’ve only just begun this IAP, I feel like I missed out on the period when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A: If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  's Thursday the 18th, so I'm going to take the time to submerge myself into ... I'm already 19...here comes the nostalgia...   A lot has ... , that was definitely an unexpected decision for me that changed the course

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Microsoft, working on Surface keyboard (that's all I can say, the rest is ... with Computer Science) Where are you, Adam? The Athena cluster in the ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

   I wasn't laughing, wincing, or wondering about the ceiling's structural integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who ... . After the show finished and the performers had taken a few bows, Elder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  in one night 2. watched experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... activity, if not necessarily for the content, then at least for the musical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , which means the days are growing shorter, the leaves are changing color, and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... Biological Systems). I’ve also been putting in several hours behind the computer managing the news department of The Tech like I normally do as well

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... into the cast iron chairs that were only bearable because they were in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this ... years already?!?!), this was the page I took to heart: The Match Between

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  more beautiful and mind-bending. Even without considering the weird ... shivering despite the toasty warm weather, I woke up from a 20-hour nap and ... saved the day yet again and told my classes to push back a few project

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011