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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave ... work!” I thought it was silly for her neighbor to be so despondent and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for ... people I've known for the past 4-6 years. I'm looking forwards to spending

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring, invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their ... days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... coming up with a zillion ways to explain the same concept; one person might ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... unquestionable ability to thrive at MIT—lasted for maybe six weeks. Then, I hit the ... except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

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

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  sorority life in general. Be prepared for some long days! You will talk to ... mapping out my Course 2 classes, to prepping me for internship interviews ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... up with people for no reason other than to derp in the hallways and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  Fruit Club. I said hi to friends boothing for the Educational Studies ... schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And ... for crying. Though he didn't understand why it was bad, he learned to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... 'd like to do some light studying or review for fun before MIT begins, then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• 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.

  

  oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... , moving onto some pumpkins from this year: First person to figure out ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  possible for me to get into MIT without foo?" The answers to these questions ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... personally identifying information and let the community analyze it, because in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were ... only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... grade after trying to ride a skateboard, I wasn’t angry at myself for not ... couldn’t help but to admit to people that I felt scared for no solid reason

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2 ... table trying to cut sideways. Therefore for the safety of the wall, the ... last precaution. Special thanks to my roommate Michelle for letting me

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012