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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  very quick read. I honestly didn’t need much convincing because I already ... book isn’t a hard read at all, and honestly, at times, the writing felt ... simplicity because it makes Kendi’s points very clear and concise and doesn’t

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  counterpart for middle schoolers. You can’t miss the events on campus. Dozens of ... ! And if you can't make it to Splash or Spark, neither as a participant ... today! Kinect Interactive Simulation - Try it! Although I wasn't able to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I ... Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the ... is not quite like a placement test because it doesn’t let you skip

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... , but don’t overplan. CPW was one of the most memorable weekends of my ... experiences! Elizabeth K. '14 Don’t stress over not being able to do everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  swimming on my stomach, I'm getting there. I won't have to worry about ... store didn't actually believe that we were serious! It was a pretty ... deadline I didn't even go home, and was in lab for 29 hours straight! Now

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  a recording to listen to. Don't be scared; it's short! < ... the scene) wore matching T-shirts and sneakers, and I noticed that ... Science as well as Physics." Isn't that cool? I think it's cool. Where else

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don't ... don't usually wear ties in the summer, and women never do." While this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  me! (true story, as I try to help froshies with their psets) i don't ... thing I have to say about thermo is that you don't understand it, or you.....don't understand it. :) I mean, I don't think I'm bad at it but I am still having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT ... of the program, and I was accepted. When I applied, I didn’t mention it ... home for a whole summer. You have to understand that my parents didn’t go

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  the T (only $2 to go from South Station to Kendall). Look! The first ... think it's great MIT can bring people together that haven't seen each ... this weekend, but with 1000+ prefrosh running around, I didn't get a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don't ... , reinforcing (you could punch our robot and drop it onto the table and it wouldn't ... block the opponent's 4 slot. The opponent wouldn't be able to put any

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I ... . This isn't the good one anyways. But I guess that's why I wear this one ... like I do to East Campus. I can't do it. I think I've been going with my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information ... truly doesn't matter who I'm with cause it's freakn' MIT!!!!!" Nadia wrote ... stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  Ina doesn't want to be cooking while the party's going on, so she gives ... really can't leave the room once you've started watching an episode. All ... '08 was a huge fan of hers. I don't know how that's even possible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  breakfast that they haven't run out yet). Ridiculously elaborate ... -night dining where that's the only option). Drink mixes Of course, I can't ... ridiculous yet simultaneously brilliant, so I couldn't possibly leave it out

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  allotted late days, so I won’t incur a penalty for turning this in late. But ... , and my favorite part is when people who haven’t painted much before join ... four measures in and don’t stop until the end. 10:00 p.m. I arrive back

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... to prove myself to them; it just wasn’t going to be straightforward ... . The rest, as they say, is history. I won’t bore you now with my career

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  who isn't camera ready when they are sick, I could never risk going out ... about my woes. Most of the time not having my own room here hasn't been ... money that I didn't get Lollapalooza tickets, but that they had put me on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  cup filled with cereal because I didn’t have time to get breakfast, and ... underprepared—I was the only person that didn’t have tap shoes. After warm-ups, I ... swing. Because of my VGO audition, I arrived late, so I wasn’t competing

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  didn’t know how to become WIDE either.  Heck, I didn’t even know my way ... what does it mean to be WIDE?  “Wide Tim”, perhaps, isn’t just wide! I ... more times!  And that’s the story of how I still haven’t figured out

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024