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• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... the opportunity to ask any questions about the club or MIT life in ... -specific events! A lot of clubs will hold CPW events for you to get to know the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... live and where you’ll be in a year, so try to give this fall a bit of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  lying, then, to call these lies? Five. In What getting an education from ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... , chose to do difficult homework, chose to not go to parties. In these ways

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... likely to come to the minds of people. In short, it lends itself to group

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While ... surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that ... ), things to make us react in one way or another (Linsanity), things to make

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read ... the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... fandom in general and Harry Potter in particular have shaped contemporary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  train to arrive, and the trip itself is around ten minutes. I get off in ... try to be speedy in my getting ready. We still leave too late to be on ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... 're starting to get busier… you get used to big things fast in China, and you get ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  Society in America), we get to pick any topic (course-related, of course) we ... is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5 ... all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner ... chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory reasons I will not get into"]many were erased over the past summer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to ... humanities. This means you get to choose one humanities field to concentrate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021