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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this ... reading old issues of The Tech, MIT's student paper. Soon enough, I found

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... what they think the selection committee looks like. Their answers ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... starving. The last time I tasted anything besides water had been two days

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience, my thoughts about the future, plans, worry, all that. But I scratched ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... check, and I realized that they were probably staring because the center

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  na lang umuulan (it's always raining)[/caption] Ambon. The Philippine languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I think this is mostly because the history people study just… doesn ... , or the readings from this OCW course. These are all histories of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  - consider the following exchange: HIM: "So what course are you?" YOU: "Uh ... : "Yeahhhh....." This happens all the time at MIT. III. Additionally, premeds like to say that they are different from "all the other premeds." cf

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research submission, and talk about some of the things I've learned about publishing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012