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• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  Sunday rolled around. take care of yourself! as a student, it's important ... Conner for my CPW and knew I liked the people, so I went to events in a ... OH MY GOD IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR CPW!!!! Class of '26, we cannot wait

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... evening to Sunday afternoon, for an ESP retreat. It’s been a lot these past ... so hard sometimes Be calm Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of ... 's equations. I couldn't have imagined that I would cook for 30+ people on a ... plays over the Cambridge skyline. It's a small gesture of remembrance, for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  about this — call [annotation note="a service repair hotline for on ... else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... to Blue Hills twice, once for a 5-mile, relatively-flat loop, and once

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be ... can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In ... (surely "in" is no more important than "and"?) In a nutshell, Google grants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not ... for other important things. I decided to just bite the bullet, move ... Winnie. Hi Winnie! Ever since Ben Jones left we've been looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  11:52 AM on June 9th, a cool but sunny day in Johannesburg. I took an ... where I would be staying I slept for 11 hours (Jetlag is no joke). I woke ... spoke 10 languages in a country of 11 official languages, and I continued

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for ... . I'm a complete sucker for historical stuff like that, which is why I ... "most read" on the side for a quick idea of what it's about). Then there

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... have no idea.” And I told her I’d think on it for a little bit before ... culmination of a thought that I’ve had for a number of months but hadn

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  interned for a summer at Uber ATG (Advanced Technologies Group) which is ... African Leadership University for a program in the fall and then return to ... not a good infrastructure for accountability, corruption arises

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  interning for the next four weeks during Independent Activities Period (IAP ... , really. Possibly more importantly, no meal plans or dining halls in sight ... . Last Friday, my older brother (MIT '11) and I took off from San Francisco

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  busy week for a capella, as there were also concerts by the MIT ... It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  a 5.13 at 11am. As we entered the 5.13 lecture hall, our costumed TA ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... -notch. Plus, hanging out with friends for a few hours seemed infinitely more

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... , who also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. It's been a year since I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... , and rowing provided a key distraction for me. This fall, I raced at (you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ) paper. This 13-page masterpiece (cough) for 21A.260, on cross ... about biomedical ethics. It wasn't a bad concentration, but it's tough for ... weather and went out to Chili's for dinner, then shopped a little at The Pru

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he ... dinner, taking walks, shopping, living life. I got a small snack from 7-11, and opened up my book. I read for a long time. It’s pleasant, under the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  " as a catalyst for discussion, seminar participants will examine gender ... . P. W. Shor 21A.219J Law and Society (Same subject as 11.163J, 17.249J ... , relationships, sexual health, balancing plans for career and family, body image

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  will share later for at least five years, but I’ve developed a special ... my guesses for the reason.  A mother’s cooking is and will always be ... food warm for you! Can we just appreciate the blessing that is a rice

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020