Think About This
Hi Everyone, I thought it was about time I wrote something interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange...
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The Craziest of Weeks
Hello homies. It's been a while, right? I feel like I start off every blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to formally welcome you admitted and delightful goobers to the...
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One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas
The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it up nicely when he posted on Facebook today that "the differential in campus happiness between today and yesterday is the biggest...
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My First Astrophotography
Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are: pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur...
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August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too?
3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please pardon the incoherentness. Right now I'm at an airport, watching my Terrascopers from Mission 2016 bond as we await to board a plane...
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Exploring Boston
For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango. I really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get...
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QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU!
Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus Preview Weekend (CPW)! Over a thousand students will be on campus and there will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your...
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Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol
First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while. Life has been... interesting the last few months and I'll blog about everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a...
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With Apologies to Dr. Seuss
Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! (flickr: thenerdsangle) You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any...
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Engineering
Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.
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Freshman FAQs
Hey there! Haven't seen you in a while. And by "seen" I mean "you haven't seen the pixels on your screen that would indicate that you are reading an MIT Admissions blog post by Michael C. '16."...
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AHHH CPW!!
CPW. Campus Preview Weekend. MIT's admitted students weekend sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up...
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My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy classification (my dad will remember that "spheres=hot gas" and...
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Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday but first we are getting ready for Campus Preview Weekend...
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CPW at Random Hall!
Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively less soggy shoes, battling a CPW-long downpour over and under rooftops without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got...
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retreating and proceeding
(Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree: everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here...
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Fantasy Feast
Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast. Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods...
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MIT’s Tribute to the Marathon Bombings
I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the...
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Together.
This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to...
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On the other side of CPW
I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week. Other posts include the ones by Lydia K. '14 and Anna H. '14. One thing that I did not expect about the weekend was that it would be so...
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