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• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  first part of the current lab. Getting help is one of the best policies in ... proportionately much more resources for biology and chemistry among the sciences. I ... algorithm would pick one of the choices for their schedule. It refused to give

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  the best at something and everything, while in high school, I felt that ... . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love ... trying to show off everything under the dome (and believe me, there is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  than I could. Climbing is the best excuse for my friends and I to get off ... asked us for our roses, thorns, and buds of the week.  Roses and thorns ... it as things that were almost roses but not quite. For the purpose of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to ... . MIT has one of the best econ departments in the country, so I'm a lucky

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  . Regardless, I’ve compiled what I have, and for what I don’t, I wrote the best ... of cardboard and one motive: build the biggest, best shanty we could ... Senior Haus fashion, we made the best of a kinda sad situation. We grabbed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  everyone knows that Lancaster (PA) is the best site*. The classes I took were ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this ... less frequently and with more consideration for other people. The fact

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  usually) the best choice for a student to stay in the same program for ... . So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen-year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  put them side by side with their friends’ clips! The result is a fun ... our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the ... , etc., those just aren’t as represented in this blog. Also, the idea is

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  Science and Technology Initiatives) is the umbrella organization for a lot ... (although I think Isreal is the most recent). Well, I've been wanting to go ... to work out the details of the trip. Every case is different, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ?" "Are you okay?" "What is the point? Nothing is going to change." "You ... such as Black Lives Matter is one of the most important developments of ... had to ask for the school to not put me in the lowest classes. Their

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  a pencil to sketch the design directly on the piece for reference ... visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant ... design is based on the iconic cable cars of San Francisco, which I grew up

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry. This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to start the "build" classes for my major (MechE). I better understand

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... out the best way to talk about icelandic volcanoes, Switzerland, Germany

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while ... simply waiting for the pin to drop, as every week we are pushed to our ... 'm lauding is the very same institution that is killing me. Simultaneously, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  new favorite quote and mantra for 2017. It is not the critic who counts ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... of my inspirations for wanting to go to MIT.     Within the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due ... reason to the ways of the post office. Again, I know this is very ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  hotel t-shirt. Twin Fantasy is the best album of all time, you say ... easy for dinner [/annotation] for the whole week every Monday evening ... → getting confused → going to office hours to ask for help → finishing the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... to college is as meaningful for you as it was for me. A big part of the ... topics around in my head and wait for inspiration. That's the thing about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008