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  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
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the ... "]electrical engineer of the hardware variety.[/annotation]  In my era, MIT had ... breaking off to become the new College of Computing, my how things have

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... the well-practiced, the shouts of people reached my ears. “Come and see ... look at one of them— I have no idea what happened next. The world

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• 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 / How to Human

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

  

  manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... last class to my first extracurricular activity of the day, rushed back ... , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... schedule, and you never really are able to stay on top of everything. The

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once ... leagues based on their level of participation that week. The app awards

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... meters. Later, I realized that this is where the coach put all of the ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  ? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... packets so i could make it myself.) i try to emulate the ghosts of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as ... , but don’t overplan. CPW was one of the most memorable weekends of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of ... the beginning... 9/8/21 - First Day of the Semester After all the pre-semester fun, the time had finally risen for all of us students to return to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion~*~ might be gone. Is it passion if you are still in the middle of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found ... do think Hawai'i changed that and made me a bit more fond of the whole

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... community college in which we literally took turns snoring away in the back of ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006