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  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT ... ; Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... all this time, I never cease to be thrilled to get to finally meet all ... . The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events should I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... , different lost texts, but I find the idea comforting all the same. While ... German more than modern English (it was spoken pre-French influence) and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... application was lacking, or what I should improve on? If we waitlisted you, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  I am what one might call a "professional blogger", or what a liberal ... room, and the stubborn ExpressionEngine blogging platform with which I am currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during ... get the most of your time on campus. The first question I often hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  historically significant and culturally stupendous event: my birthday. Today, I turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I ... instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I'm a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... robots.Fun fact number 2: I'm an actor, albeit one with an incredibly short

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college. So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during Orientation, put myself on their mailing lists. But seeing how i'm still evading

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high ... chemistry on your own! A quick introduction to my recent kitchen escapades: I have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... Camp was not at all what I expected. It was both harder and easier than I ... actually print out when we told it to do so, I still felt like strangling my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  about doing before. And why was I thinking about RB Woodward today? Well, I was walking around MIT this afternoon and I passed an campus tour. There, I heard two interesting questions and even more interesting answers

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... . Schuh Subject: Metal cooling question Dear Professor Schuh, I am an MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... $0.10/bag Get a Bike with a basket. I’ve carried ridiculous amounts ... ingredients between lunch and dinner, for example fried chicken and rice I can

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  GIRs work. (http://tinyurl.com/d2tqpbm) and I'll just go through and say which classes I'm currently taking. 8.01 - Classical Mechanics Most ... game. For me, this is one of two classes that I take mainstream. What

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  become official college students! Often, I get emails asking what the ... have they done, and what do they hope to do? So while I can point to ... . So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  that I have spoken to did not expect to join one when they first entered ... sorority is really like, I felt that I should explain why sororities are both ... where some of the sisters live (for example, I still live in the dorm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one ... student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005