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  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at CPW are awesome. All of them. Here are some especially awesome ones that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  Institute by working here. We have a lot of catching up to do and lots of new ... Admissions that most of you probably have no idea who I am. I mean, I don ... Hall. 2. Who is your blogspiration? Sam M. '07 wrote one of my favorite

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  the societal implications of technology. I wanted to learn about ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science-technology ... 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  30 days, which comes with various, non-specific benefits, and lot of ... kind of avatar defines me as a person?” Who cares? Spring semester was, in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  of the Institute, tucked tightly into an unlit cannon about to launch ... 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  and pick up. My sister and I are really close, but now that both of us ... stairs of Walker Memorial and into Caving Club office. Could I have skipped ... upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... of tips for applicants based on interviews I have conducted. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... ’ve graduated, guys… Elizabeth, Course 20 class of 2013, lived in Simmons Hall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017