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  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  October of the first semester, midnight quasi-philosophical discussions ... work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the whole student body knows. The cancellation of CPW is not very high ... ='more accurately, an incomplete FAQ page leaks on the evening of July 5th; for a more ... is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... Gamemasters~ for the fun of it. We then set up our first form game, [annotation

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  . Turns out this isn't even the first incident of students intentionally ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ."]plot points,[/annotation] the 2003 Hunt was the first to have many pages of ... , wrote the I.A.P. Mystery Hunt, a single page of twelve clues. When Brad ... audience and popularity grew over time. The first Hunts had dozens of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... scenes, people, and places--nothing that encompassed the whole time period

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  of the pages. Ethan's job is sign all pages he believes are ready. This ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  placed near that first dorm. So why are all of the other dorms on the ... that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  translation but does not capture the whole of the phrase ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the ... Joshua, or that I have two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the things I like, if that will help. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... , Peter Hughes Richardson, that greets the applicant on the first page ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  , and we talk about a whole bunch of interesting stuff. Some of the ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... .03 (Differential Equations) lectures except the first, went to no recitations other ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  PI (principal investigator, aka the head honcho of a lab), first author ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  the first few pages, and stopped when I reached blue ink. There was a ... name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... "][/annotation] One of the first assignments I got from the group was to note down every ... . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  Conti gave us on one of the first days of class, regarding tardiness. The ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015