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• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  say that three 18 year olds were probably not going to grasp it at 3 in ... Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  excited to see how well it turned out. That's all hand done, all the pin ... during the race. The creativity of all the bikes had a lot to do with how ... were intended for. We also made sure not to pedal directly behind it

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  about how lucky I was to have the chance to attend, and one week freaking ... : questions were raised, and potential solutions described, concerning how to reach people who are deaf to the bad news about climate change, how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  the one to burst your bubble, I really do. But PIRATE Shanties? Not real ... “Shanty” began to refer to any song about the ocean, which is sort of how ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... after all, and it's not such a lonely place either. Here's to three more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  - they also learn how to understand, critique, and design brain imaging ... meritocracy. At MIT no one cares what you look like, how you dress (to put it ... Auditorium), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae ... reason, my elementary school went up to sixth grade instead of ending at ... song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13 ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I ... thing about MIT, #262, is that you quickly learn to not take surveys

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  : how close to last am I for PE team picks? Physical education was, to ... , something to poke at: c'mere and look at how weak Camille is. It wasn ... someone to notice that I was adamant on skipping meals because of how I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  on the unloading weekends. I tried not to remember my beginning ... fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  not only the curriculum of his iconic MIT engineering course 2.007 to ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about ... laugh to think about someone paradoxically telling you with all earnestness that they're about to lie to you. Any robot readers heads have  just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  to exam revision (yes, over here people say revision, not review ... ’s how I got to know her!! Since the first time I talked to her, I have ... swimmers to find out what I should expect from the swim and how to define the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  different elements of the ring design and how they came together to make a ... how lucky I am to be a member of such a wonderful class of students. I ... Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  steps before running into a boba tea shop, not-so-subtly flaunting a “How to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the ... 's mom had prepared a late lunch of fish and porridge. It's good to not

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  besides Course 8 students tend to know about because most people do not ... discovered that if you’re ever in a place you think you’re not supposed to be ... not been to the Rainbow Lounge, I hear it’s a good place to just relax

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  against her heavy body to fix the bed. “And how old do you think they are ... . Concord ate carefully, but not carefully enough to avoid getting grease on ... the blog post but I really, really did not want to completely spoil the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013