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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent ... the norm, but that's the beauty of it. There is no norm. I've seen ... wondering if writing humorous essays are not a disadvantage since the humor of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I'm far too lazy to go to the basement of the student center and put money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... like the Times Square of Madrid- there are more people in the streets ... Mónica). Then Mónica and I left to meet the rest of her siblings (Martín is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... fact, I did extra reading. We read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which is bound with Incidents in the Life of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... because, for the past two years, it rained heavily through all of CPW. East ... whole CPW evening cleaning the grease-covered pans left over from a day of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of ... academic study in a way that goes beyond just taking classes. As the end of ... a position that matched the type of technical work I was looking for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  you the short and long version of this post, and you can choose! It ... have good friends who live there - Keri is just sort of.. the anti ... , regardless of whether you apply for RBA or not. Even if you don't apply for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the young entrepreneurs around me are college dropouts (all out of ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language…and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... share of the 114,000 known PC viruses over the years, none of which are an ... 's just the better choice. (Yeah, Apple's really not paying me for any of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... of shopping advice blog, with article titles like “Deals of the Week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different ... of the options I'm pondering). I did like being on crew, but there ... , of course. I think most of the other varsity sports require a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... given advice can be digested by the recipient regardless of whether or not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... , I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to ... . The fact of the matter is that CPW is an experience far beyond mere ... one of the admissions counselors, over 2,000!) that the Admissions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008