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  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  possibly can and we're just about ready. Right now, we're all getting our prefrosh assigned to us, as you can see below: 1,100 of you are coming and ... -Conner and say hi, I'll likely be involved with most of the events we host but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to expect? You can read some guest entries (including mine!) from the current ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the mixture because I had just finished working with yeast in the lab ... so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up

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

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour ... rain and I can't wear my cute interview shoes (they're very "I'm a ... -around awesome person. Wednesday, Mar 1. Free day in Palo Alto! I sleep in, go to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group ... ESG to stay in the program, ESG can be only about taking classes or it ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... comically improbable possibilities? Can I just take a moment here to marvel ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  -40 undergrads per class year in course 9, although I think that number has been ... /systems/psychology. If you like all of it, you can dabble in everything. Have it your way ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  -100 piano![/caption] Juggling in Lobby 10 Many a night I’ve returned from a ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] Spot spotted in Stata![/caption] Free Polaroids I was ... papers to come in. I leave to use the bathroom and for a blessed moment of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  busiest and bustling cities in the world, Boston. During my time here, I ... years. In these past months, my friends and I have discovered our fair ... 's is, in fact, not it. But since I'm making this blogpost: It's godless

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  my favourite drinks back home in South Africa; naturally, I was excited ... has the drink, though, so I lived in blissful ignorance about the ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... MIT. Dreamers can continue their studies in the U.S. thanks to DACA ... is very significant. After that, how can I give up? How can I stop just

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  (can I use this expression?), it was borderline miserable. Once in a ... It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  those already accepted in Early Action. When should I fill it out? As ... . There is an option where you can indicate this. I am homeschooled. Do I ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am no

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  submit the form? Yes. There is an option where you can indicate this. I ... can ignore the text boxes and simply choose the option, "I attend a ... that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... on in the Garden State. I had just finished an article bemoaning the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008