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  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... 'd for 8.02 and was notably fond of 2.005 office hours[/caption] monthly ... edited, and that is my todo list. It tends to contain 5-7 days worth of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  version of the cha cha slide and by the time I turned on my trusty, dandy ... enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it ... Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  be yourself. It's overused, I know, and whether or not any of us even ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... practiced in front of my mirror, my friends, and my faithful stuffed animals

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were ... effect on separating schoolwork and consequence. A fair bit of adjustment

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... material! And now I'm back on campus settling in and trying to feng shui ... I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  piece of advice: don't try and go crazy on the ASEs just cause. There are ... a 60 on a test won't be the end of the world in the same way. Also, if ... instead of taking it with friends later on? I haven't taken this class but

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... gyms and free practice hours for members of the teams). We have an ... stringent about tryouts and cut quite a few of the people who try out. If you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  of! Going on vaca Adam and I are going to the Bahamas tomorrow and ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  and pamphlets, and lots and lots of info. It's been several years since ... figured I should brush up on my statistics and refresh my memory about how ... apply if you feel ready and have done a lot of research and know what you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  not ventured into any of the extended versions. Baby steps, folks. On ... : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ... Trek: Into Darkness The Place Beyond the Pines And this is Part I of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  considered liveblogging it - pictures of a near-empty terminal and all - but ... woke up, then I had a piece of toast..."). I have a camera and am willing ... : Any time I am bewildered by the "OMG PLANES" mentality of most everyone

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  Activities which it represents”? And is it even right for any of those ... Theater Arts staged their own production of the play, and we were asked to ... excellent sequel. It's clear that the sport of football needs to change. And

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  piling up like crazy over here. But so is work on my 8.06 term paper and ... ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... Islands with me during spring break. Opened it on the beach a few times and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... you do? That totally depends on what you like and what events are

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  , Ethics and Politics of). Perhaps I’ll soon collect my thoughts on all that ... , the group that puts on VagMo, and we want to hear about all kinds of ... seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  outside of class include homework hours, hours reading, and hours studying ... assumptions, and give some type of conceptual and numerical answer to this ... of your friends having a "Problem Set Party." And someone approaches

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  . That includes both robots and mental health. There’s been a lot of debate on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... of metallurgy, you would be the most knowledgable individual at MIT on ... and cooling cycle changes the microstructure of the alloy, but the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  on time (since there's a LOT of questions, and you're only given an ... monopoly!)...and so on. It's a nice hodgepodge introduction to a ton of stuff ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008