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  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  prior. As my granddaddy used to say: To make a short story long, this ... Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  when you make a home with someone: you share.) — I meant to call my mom ... punished by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill as his afterlife. The story ... to. It was a blended Spotify playlist that I have with one of my

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 ... . So don't judge a book by it's cover, and take a chance to try something ... make sure that those questions that you do have get answered by students

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... 's a lot more for them to do somewhere more bustling, like Harvard Square ... a few years ago which were too widespread to be attributed to other

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  to make them, or just perform a metabolic reduction on food. (Vegan ... dragon trying to make friends with a guy playing a harmonica? 22:47 - 23 ... Random Hall by helping to complete a gecko tessellation mural on one of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  our GRTs or the members of a particular suite are given $15 to prepare ... 's turn to prepare food. We decided to go with the Hallooween theme and make ... sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... – it was hesitant to make “an exception to its long

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... solve everything. A little more production, making the right thing this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  is “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses” by Jordan Ellenberg, a ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... to a problem like the one from class, but with different numbers. After

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving ... to drive back home only to head into Boston again a few hours later for a play at the Cutler Majestic Theater. The original plan was for me to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... standardized American can to shame. It's a totally different cultural experience ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  a spot on the wait list. Not all of those students will choose to ... ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You do not need to submit additional documents, but if you

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to ... campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous items or bribes

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It's a pretty good gig, to be honest. Your application will be read by a small committee made up of AOs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  afternoon unpacking and finished it off by heading out to a barbecue with my ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  them, eager to make it home. To a fellow punk: "Doesn't even look at us ... square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in ... a year afterward, I became no longer able to call that place home, but

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... weekend-long conference in Chicago (what a city!) sponsored by the College ... really this was a conference about ideas and solutions to the problems that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... . What makes me sad is when students focus on their studies to the ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006