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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... of my host in case she couldn't get in contact with me. If that isn't ... got to the point where CPW just wasn't as much fun as it would be with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  the grass for a dog sniff security check. I didn't consider my notebook ... of all 800+ audience members rising simultaneously. I hadn't even ... to have fewer panelists, and a longer discussion on each topic. Don't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... :17-12:17 Did You Say Disney!? You just can't wait to be King. No one will tell ... rediscover tales as old as time and songs as old as rhyme. We don't mind if you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  this, and I hadn't even declared a major yet.) Of course, medical issues ... from the surgery described below - the food isn’t bad, and the nurses ... yards from the Kendall Square T-stop on the Red Line. If you hop on the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  information the next time the question comes up, instead of "🤔 I don't remember ... ). At the beginning of the 20th century, Ford's famous Model T had not ... haven't taken a machine learning (ML) course before but I have some

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  , and if they weren't so sweet I would have been way more embarrassed by ... finished eating. I didn't think much of the half hour until a few weeks ... given me pause, but honestly I didn't even give it a second thought

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  . We made conversation, I can’t imagine what about, mainly to feel the ... flairs, slabs of pure color spread by a palette knife. I couldn’t see the ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  don’t know if you noticed, but Normal Ping Pong is really hard. Those ... had worked about ten hours less than I was planning. And I hadn’t even ... ASE. We cook up a plan. Mission Don't Fail 18.03: work all day

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as ... rings[/annotation] this year!!!!!!! It almost feels wrong if I didn't list ... semester. Thermodynamics isn't necessarily the field that I'm most interested

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  Hey! Here are some personal/academic updates. I haven't been blogging ... especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at least feedback loops that aren't artificial like exams. This makes your

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  rendition of this spiel to the incoming class of 2028… still can’t believe I ... senior majoring in courses 10 and 18. If you aren’t familiar with your ... , Theta Chi, during the pandemic, and now I was living in a house I hadn’t

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and ... where students don't have traditionally-scheduled classes. If they choose ... opportunities."]IAP,[/annotation]I didn't. Simultaneously, my friends and I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  I’m comfortable with the material I’m presenting. Likewise I haven’t ... -work balance. What hours of sleep weren’t lost to 2.009 were lost to hanging out ... much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  safety, comfort, stability.  I wanted to be home. I can’t, to be honest ... would’ve given anything for the promise that it wouldn’t be my entire ... something to remember. I can’t tell how I feel about this. The narrative of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  applications SORRY JADE."]I didn’t hear back from Petey for a while ... didn’t think I would be able to meet the initial deadline we had set. I ... completing the article before the summer ended, since I didn’t know when I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate ... as I enjoyed the projects (and the food), I don’t think my favorite ... door of the COOP to find— It didn’t budge. There was a man standing ten

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  didn't want to miss too much of the class and ended up dropping 2 ... and I didn't really know anyone, but it turned out to be so much fun! I ... , and was like: "1 class can't hurt, right?" So I signed up. I then saw

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  supervisor who simultaneously maintained high expectations but didn’t have the ... . I now know that my experience wasn’t and shouldn’t be the norm, but a ... cracks  I repaired with shrimp paste,  don’t let the weight of your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn't ... while doing so that I wasn’t entirely sure what kids were reading these ... didn’t make use of MIT time as readily as we college students do. They

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  oversized T-shirt horrendously tucked into the knee folds of a pair of flare ... wardrobe, which previously consisted of only T-shirts and sweatpants, and I ... template, which I proceeded to format very badly because I didn't know how to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022