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  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  MIT.   After CPW, I knew that I was going to MIT. If you can't go to ... and learn physics until you can't physically or mentally handle physics ... point of going to a campus preview weekend if you don't go home with a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  unphotogenic). Blurred for your own safety. (Just kidding, my boyfriend doesn't ... anyone to come out of that situation with purely good feelings. I don't ... )   Expose yourself to new ideas, places and things. I don’t know how well I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  admissions process. What matters isn't raw SAT score, or how many people we can ... announcing the signs we've read in the application's entrails? I don't think ... to earlier: what's to say that the psychologists weren't "better" at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full ... , "Slam is a safe place." In some important ways, so is MIT. If you don't ... stuff. Talk. And don't always feel like you need to have a p-set in hand

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  bit too attractive!" (Darn right.) "Is (girl's name I can't quite ... around her – I think that one lifted her up, although I couldn’t see from ... our identity. 9.00: don’t you see our love is real? My hand is stained

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  scientific ingenuity or whatever; you can't pulverize a chunk of snow in your ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of ... week, alright? I just couldn't feel any sympathy for how stressed and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  punctuated by the occasional snore. (I don't know who was snoring, but whoever ... we saw It didn't take long before we knew we had really left America ... this doesn't really happen in America: Buses went on both those

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn't ... (which all had the same plot, in case you didn't notice by the time you ... finally settling to a maybe-this-isn't-so-bad idea by the time you get to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT ... lobby was clear of police/janitors. It wasn't. The entire second floor ... the novel idea of asking to do it, something I hadn't actually

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  -rinse-cycle'd digital. I'm probably getting my own camera on Black Friday so I won't have ... across campus to the Kendall Square T stop. While waiting for the next ... station and didn't see them again in the theatre. The terribly named movie

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  , Cambridge? No musical reputation at all. Or at least word hasn't reached the ... Harvard Square T Station; they seem to perform there pretty consistently ... unfortunately I missed every one of them. On the plus side, the CPR training didn't

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  get a second chance, there isn't an advantage to applying early. If ... early if you don't apply, so go for it! So, this is "Early Decision ... upon early acceptance. MIT, with its EA program, doesn't require you to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  (whose number I still can't remember), a monthly metro pass, my own desk at ... don't even know where to begin. I guess the beginning is best- I got ... all that Spanish that I hadn't used in 3 years. Monday was my first day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  that my camera lacks image stabilization doesn’t help… Also, if you don’t ... Meet the Bloggers. This entry is way too long and I don’t have the heart ... with a few friends, including one I haven’t seen in almost two years

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  thing to do," because after high school, don’t all good students go to ... ’s just down the road. Anthony isn't the only blogger who took time between ... " between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just goofing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... all nations need to be healthy, we shouldn’t be the only ones.) How ... and couldn’t wait to hear his familiar voice bellow from a few feet in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  this term with my friend Nina '10, so while my collar isn't physically ... in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in 2006, obviously, because I was getting oriented. The t-shirts were free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  found intersting. Unfortunately, it wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped ... questions, rather than someone like me, who wasn't actually looking for a ... Islamic point of view, the discussion...wasn't really much of a discussion

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  hold it between two supports. Barcelona, I don't know about. The first ... is expected to be finished by 2025, although this doesn't seem really ... the background. In that case, uh, don't even bother applying to MIT. Not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  "gonna" isn't just verbal slang- it's really becoming a new word. Look at ... pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... I'm sticking with what I know here, so I don't muck up the examples

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006