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  CPW Hosts

  

  at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  change myself at a fundamental level because of the crushing vulnerability ... them. But you, here, you're capable of anything, because you're so bad at ... to get over these failures, no matter how many of them get thrown at me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  .  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible.  You ... the middle of The Metropolitan Museum. I flip through your zine about

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  in terms of geographic outreach but also its structure of different ... Blokhuis, the USA lead at Bebras, sent an email blast to the Computer Science ... teacher and suggest they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  &A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of admissions. Counselors can RSVP at brownmityale.org. I know that many blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture, 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in ... :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them ... , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... files. I am downright horrendous at keeping digital spaces clean, so my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  are destined to be forgotten. To sacrifice who you are at the feet of ... are at the end of this blog and I still want those who don’t know much ... the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  handful of indy hackers made their run at the Straw Poll, the ballot box was ... of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have learned to ... would’ve been looking at a surgery that would leave me unable to put ... naturally my whole life. Instead of walking, I was dragging, hopping, or

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and he studied computer science and mathematics at MIT too. Of course ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023