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• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all around me, and I just have all of this freedom and nobody telling me that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• 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 / 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 ... , many of you may be plagued with logistical travel and planning issues

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... into the void of the interwebs…also shamelessly quoting ourselves in same post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Campus unless there’s a definitive offer of free stuff, so I normally ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• 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 ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive

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

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• 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 time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• 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 ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours-of-the-day-apart[/annotation] but rather spending-all-of-IAP-on-opposite-coasts-apart! Here’s what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... ’s, Oculus Rifts, laser cutters, 3D printers, bandsaws, plywood, 1000 yards of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  the rink, in and out of the classroom, offer a social component to an ... would adapt and adjust to the rigor and intensity of the course load, if I ... constantly am reminded by the opportunity cost of training and competing full

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• 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 ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these ... . * * * Our training begins on Monday March 24. Around ten of us have arrived in ... are a handful of graduate students, and I’m the token undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014