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  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... last many months helping their children survive the process of applying

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to ... titled Tips for Finding a UROP, as well as a series of advice and resources

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous years for the classes of interest (thanks Cameron!) because if I’m going

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... , I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... . The schedule can be viewed here. One of the interesting shows on WMBR

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... 'll go down that rabbit hole another time. Anyways, I was getting tired of ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust" -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all sorts of things of interest when you poke them. But along with all the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of my old ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those

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

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... edged into the middle of the line to the bathroom and after ten minutes of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• 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 ... elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006