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  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in ... campus. It's been great to meet people in person after corresponding with ... , I get to "float" a bit more tomorrow. Looking forward to the EC bouncy

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  weeks before I shipped out to Harvard, I was participating in the National ... . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during ... "...woops, wrong HAL. Anyway, let's get back to the Fourth. Two years ago, my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... .02 exam back in December. It's becoming easy to fall into the trap of ... text and instead to practice more problems. It's funny because 6.042 in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  'm pretty sure now that there isn't any other way to get it in your head. So ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously considered attending any schools on the West Coast, because I wanted to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  myself to not let myself get buried so far in my classwork that I don ... baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... preserved monument to Cambridge's role in this very early stage of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... corner). Video: The ride terminated (as most rides ought to) in a hot tub ... like we needed to maintain threshold power to simply stay upright in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  we hadn't really done before, and to get to leave a "mark" in terms of ... filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... ‘20 were very involved in!) originally founded in 2017 to paint a long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... foil. Rutherford, of course, did it to get a clearer picture of atomic ... balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... logical choice to talk about what the weekend has in store for you if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  mainstream classes in an entire semester? 0. You get a lot more comfortable ... you can talk to them and ask questions, but in ESG it's even easier to ... submit entirely to ESG, you don't have to. It's a good way to get to know a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that ... in the Park, and over to the fields, where I played soccer in second ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  council so much and I wish we were in person so I could get to know them ... afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  section of the city. MIT exists in a sort of bubble, and it's so easy to get ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most ... , or going outside to get an iced matcha from Caffe Nero, or just hanging

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our ... movies related in some form or fashion. It has the potential to be an

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  wanted to tie in the Olympics somehow, but no such luck there. Sorry, Paris ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be ... to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... totally getting pwned, it's ON Laura!" in Bryan's guest blog entry.] So now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009