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  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  My approximate CPW schedule Thursday liveblog 8:55am: I arrive on ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... burrito at Anna's Taqueria, I head on over to the UROP panel. There are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey, do you want a ride? It's almost free!" ME: "Well, no, I'm actually only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... with the EC contact information...what do I write/say when I email

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as soon as I unboxed them. The packaging was incredibly suspicious, with the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I ... like nightingales. Content with staying dry but wistful for adventure, I ... . Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I ... I talk to another TJ fanatic they automatically know what snacks I'm talking about. So either I'm super basic and like the things that everyone

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... , stupid frosh to make bad decisions. I've been sticking to a relatively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... better than quality. What I ate: After scoping the many different stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  . there are people graduating today that i've known since high school. and there are people that i only got to know this year or this semester ... another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... screen, you could see what I was seeing. I played around with a digital

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  requirements for my major, I decided that this fall semester was the perfect time ... take This summer, I scoured Harvard’s course catalog, looking for a class that both fit into my schedule and piqued my interest. I enlisted

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  it while procrastinating on something far more important. I clean my room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... special tools beyond reading, writing, and making decisions, i.e. basic ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  While I read Paradise Lost, I think about astronomy. I know what you're thinking: "what else is new?" You yawn and ask whether I salivate and breathe while reading Paradise Lost.  I know, I know! But read this description

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... love and hugging. I was Secret Santa to Caitlin '15. We share a love of ... 's awesome) so I got her a pair of TARDIS earrings and "Into the West" harp

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ... helped me realize that Course 1 wasn't my destiny. SO WHAT IS THE BOXED I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  : “Bless you. You know, I’m interested. What does a typical MIT frosh* even DO on the weekends?” *defined here as me. Disclaimer: I may not be the ... spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  years already?!?!), this was the page I took to heart: The Match Between ... . Looking back on my two and a half years here, I am most proud of my ... Service Center. In my 'Two Videos' entry from December, I briefly mentioned

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012