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• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious ... to dislike. You tell people you don't really like bacon and they tell

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... -- most upperclassmen are probably still trying to erase memories of their ... be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... to know if you want to stay somewhere that's not so that they can put ... . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... extremely hard and this school has pushed me to limits I didn't even know I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... principal," my mom muttered under her breath. She turned to me. "You let me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  i seem to be physically incapable of writing blogs in a timely fashion, so in an effort to force myself to write, this will be a rambling ... 've been in previous years due to Being Old or smth (tbh mainly hosedness

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lonely but exciting road and choosing to traverse it

  

  listening to cellophane by FKA twigs. cellophane is a vastly depressing song, often theorized to be about twigs’ relationship and engagement with Robert ... . Why was I listening to such a sad song? Because, of course, it’s great

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather. So what better way to embrace both of these downsides than to go

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report (SSR)/transcript. We find that it is most important to ... , under these conditions, your preferred recommenders may be unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of recommendation
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  mostly miserable. I had already decided to apply to the Admissions Blogs at ... so I would often talk to her about her blogs, and see her post them. It was always an event. Our other roommate, Nora and I would race to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  children, causing his son zeus to hate him and eventually overthrow him ... a scenario, all the dogs quickly learned to jump over the hoop ... the control group, at which point they did not attempt to jump over the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023