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  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  50-50 with regards to if they had or not). CPW was the first admitted ... afterwards. My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself ... decisions and left with a certainty, even if I wasn't fully ready to admit it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  throughout this post that correspond with this video: [embed ... together the oven in the courtyard. Even with the extra leg at the droopy ... , so we decided to cover the top with layers and layers of aluminum foil

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  really like the movie 500 Days of Summer, so bear with me here. This ... with me in East Campus over the summer as well. But the first two weeks ... trip to Maine with Somebody Really Cool :) [caption id="attachment_35686

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  , but it's certainly not the only one with a great story. So I sent a ... dorm room, but I didn't have the forethought to bring one with me to MIT ... it was so well done that I was too afraid to paint over it with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  ) can be modeled with differential equations, and how important these ... around the concepts, and I struggled to come out of the class with an A. On ... following year, got an A with very little effort. In short, there are classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’ll help me figure out what I want to do with my life. If I get through the ... and because I have a lot of friends taking it with me. I also really ... classes so kindly provide me with. I'm also currently unsure if I'm enrolled

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  On January 1st, I enjoyed a nice New Year's dinner with my family. We ... of my friends, one that I met at TechCrunch DisruptNY, messaged me with ... . Somewhat expensive but manageable with a free conference ticket. My friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm ... more work and then chilling with friends and doing household chores. I ... dressed people. Cambridge opposes the big city skyline with rows of small

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  students that went to prestigious high schools with award winning math and ... situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... able to share this information with you guys!!! I spent my freshman and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  take off some of the stress that comes with being a student at MIT. Lol ... , there is nothing wrong with relaxing for the first semester. Now, I am not ... wrong with spending some time relaxing and hanging out with friends every

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this year in affiliation with MIT’s Course 8 (Physics) department! Though ... with my life during the last two weeks--working and sleeping at MIT ... accurately as Barker. With its convenient location on the fifth floor directly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman spring I took a chance with five classes, and while I made it through it ... he cancelled the first lecture of the semester with a 2AM email. Why

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... charged gyroscopes inside washing machines with changing magnetic fields. It ... lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  been covered with plywood and then heavy-duty plastic sheeting, covering ... of freshmen *ahem* ballpit balls with a hose, I had stumbled upon the ... important things to know when designing a ballpit.) With the help of some

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  probably ended with about a bajillion thank-yous in a row. Recipients ... last week, when my inbox was suddenly abuzz with frenzied announcements ... the lottery for free dinners with distinguished members of the physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  with TIM!) They’ve been asking…. (Who’s been asking ‘bout me?) They ... table with a hot cup of tea and opened my hometown newspaper ‘The Star ... comic books, can't part with his BlackBerry, and once flashed Leonard "Mr

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  hotel blocks away from Sixth. I had dinner with a group of friends and ... was the Peasants. I went with some of my Next House neighbors to Harvard ... intermission between the two ensembles' concerts, I met up with Ananth '12 in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... bets with me. But you surely remember this time?! You said you were going ... want it to be with my lute. Vieni, let's go to my performance first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  people refusing bids), you're left with maybe a little less than 50% who ... have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost prohibitive, eliminating time you could be spending with other fraternities. In

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  stable childhood. It also comes with some abandonment issues, since it took ... shinier, more manageable hair. But I spent a little more time with it, on ... just got a Subway this year, and I have a pretty good relationship with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008