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• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... leaves. I put on rain clothes and walk to the admitted student welcome in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation ... fact that my time with my living community would be cut short, that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... kindergarten! I tried to go in, but got kicked out after 2 seconds. Qin

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  alarm had gone off, I'm not sure I would have responded to it.) I ... sleeping bag into the little bag I had carried it in. Each precious second it ... Uber would be arriving there and that I was on my way. Ask your host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  would go anywhere[/annotation]. As I mentioned in my jobs post: I am ... myself two weeks in the past that everything would be okay. I'm glad it all ... . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... I from preschool all the way through AP Physics C in high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... yearbook. While I'm sure any of them would have been happy to talk to me, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  . I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... many assignments due Wednesday, and I would just be like, "Oh, oh, oh, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  the way to my friends’ suite in Burton Conner, which I decided would be ... guessed was that the first CPW I’d spend as an actual student would be ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  concentration at MIT in education through this set of classes. I encourage you to ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I ... Bergen Record wrote: Nobody cuts Mr. Goodman's class. In Robert Goodman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself ... second spiel about how I’m majoring in math and really interested in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... , they were amazed. I guess they never would have thought of that. =) Anyway, the point is, I know it's awesome...but in my world, still less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... date. I had assumed that these took place in like February or March, but ... department store when I was home in December. I'd never owned dress pants

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  send you an email in early December asking you how you would like to ... All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December ... be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  would be an utter failure as a person. I was losing my tenuous grasp of ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  warned me against ever taking it in the fall. I think the course staff ... tune in to lectures and access course materials and stuff. I thought this would be a great idea because I'm planning on taking it next semester and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to ... previously would into extracurriculars–I put extra effort into Robotics and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015