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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 ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I

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

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... your life that are most important to you. Embrace your mistakes. I can ... fact. Even so, I am still 100% in favor of the traditional information

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  'm working in Python, but I hope as I increase in difficulty, I can start ... process it. In December, I dual booted my laptop to run both Windows and ... new vigor and confidence in learning actual CS things. I'm really proud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  you can buy it at our booth in the Student Center in early May for $65. ... year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... with my face though...) P.S. In case you haven't already, you can order

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Green Building stairs when I can just live all my 3.5 years on campus in ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... team that has no reason to be in the C league. Last semester, I picked up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  really. I can put up a little fight in, say, Jstris; my last few games have ... Math words, but not the math part. Yes, I can nerd on about math, but I’m also interested in math-related things that aren’t directly math

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all ... mostly-freshman GIR (General Institute Requirement) I can no longer ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... Her.  He said we can't live without art.  In October, Masaaki Kanai ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and ... Mechanics, which I took in the fall. Last semester, I learned all about ... and can no longer support itself, that’s very bad. I’ve been enjoying

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I ... can gently scratch [annotation note="I'll admit to some number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  , and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles ... Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wall painting! Whenever I can, I try to visit my sister in suburban ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the ... next installment! Typical London row houses When you're in London ... boring, I couldn't bear to show you more. The (much more interesting

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... pretty much anything you can imagine because I really enjoy, um, numbering ... on fire on the way there and I got in a car with a stranger just so I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  the AP and asked if I can join Intel in my junior year and he replied no ... forgot to bring it in and now school's out. I can get a hold of my guidance ... safety equipment such as sprinklers in the rooms (yes, I can imagine the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when ... way that mankind buys food from the back of a truck. I assert that only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009