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  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  at this video. Nobody knows how to operate this thing because the ... -concentrated form. I have realized that I will not only be able to fit into MIT ... blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , where Copernicus was writing to suggest that the Sun and not Earth is at ... : How to pick up chicks Elephants How to throw cards Basics of fandom How to psychoanalyze people Why is nuclear waste a huge problem

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  implored them to understand not just me, but the community I came from ... latest in the Letters from Home to Home exhibit.  Even if you're not a big ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  parents will probably not want answers to the same questions that students ... students are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and ... determined, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... lot of insecurity related to committing to ai and maybe not being ... that much of the world yet. how am i supposed to know how much i actually

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she ... European Union, whose formation meant that I did not have to check my ... whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  actually see the guy there in person speaking not to mention the slew of ... , and I have managed to not burn down the lab yet, so I am truly hoping I ... Monday, my first semester here is abruptly coming to an end. I have

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics ... , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... give up going to discount Boston Celtics games. I'm not the greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed ... applicants to MIT; most of our admitted students did not do so. However, they ... 's and then headed into the symposium halls to give a talk on how to talk about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... recommend finding new roommates. You're going to want space and not be able ... !! They know how to cook good food (usually) or have tips for living alone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  - and learning about how they work is important! 7.013 (Intro to Biology ... as a platform to observe how creative children are, and also going ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission ... write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... 's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  and AP Physics suddenly came back to me after years of not studying them ... Kazakh. It felt… uncomfortable to not be able to understand them, even ... school up to AP Calculus, about how I felt. “I explain something to them

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to your application. You may not rewrite your essays, redo your ... best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other ... to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... into wedges. There’s a body of mathematical work about how to fairly cut ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  leaving for another planet. But that's how it is. This is not the Earth ... , contrary to what some might believe, but teachers will not generally hold ... -adapted to thrive at this climate. Going to class is not enough - you have to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... MIT feels like home, I'm definitely looking forward to going back

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... experience (also, not easy). I also (apparently) have 24/7 access to the ... giving his students free tickets to a show he's playing. How rad is that

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  : given a problem, what data do you need to solve it, and how do you ... gazillion other species you want to identify correctly? How do you take a ... will use its results—to me that’s the real work: real not as in physical

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024