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  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  prefrosh, so I had to come up with some clever options for “prefrosh tetris ... fun together, with none of the pressure or competitiveness that groups ... chance for us to socialize with each other and bond as a blogger group

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in ... as a “listener.” You can play a fun game by going to the subject ... Admissions people, my classmates are a ridiculously talented bunch with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for ... 's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few ... message was that it would be interesting if we had kids play the game with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  here, with an intended audience of high school students. (Feel free to ... ’s condition cannot hold for this relationship. A tetrahedron with an orthoscheme ... ).                If you’re hungry for more college-level math, I recommend starting with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  finally lift my own luggage when moving out) so i signed up for a weight ... saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  still) I was alone in my room with my dog on my bed. I had her there for ... myself in. When I told her, she was super excited and jumped with me for a ... studying for a final the next day with a friend who also applied. We both

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to ... ; I take issue with the "WHY don't they WANT me?" line of thought for ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and ... document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... with MIT. You must empower yourself to move forward. Work hard, play hard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't decide when registration period rolls around, so they register for twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  mesh really well...I also align with the the Chinese zodiac signs”   ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... . Mainly, I just thought this would be fun to read (since you all want to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff. I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose ... city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  that I could have one fun year with people I really vibe with before ... is a Cook-For-Yourself dorm, which makes dorms with [annotation note ... becoming a member of TT, I knew I was signing myself up for trauma

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020