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  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  the Iron Man expectation. Are you allowed to make mistakes if you’re an ... to live the rest of your life proving you deserved it?  I think now ... ’s a way to balance solving your 'little hunger' with leaving a door open

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  beavers all. And when we get together, We do the beaver call. e to the u, du ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent ... pancakes while singing along to your favorite Disney songs! 08:47 - 10 ... Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  getting carpal tunnel"]orbital sander[/annotation]to veeeeeeery carefully ... , over and over, trying to get it right and figure out what the relative ... midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... : Be Safe – Your safety, the safety of others, and the safety of anyone

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  the Movies" here on the blog on Monday. Your picture will get bonus ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it ... was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... Wilczek. The event ran late, however, and some people had to leave early to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  enlightening, than a Clay Aiken concert would be. You're not allowed to take ... loves her some frappuccino, so we decided to get right back on the T and ... you're not allowed to photograph the interior of a Starbucks for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  headphones Come back to your dorm room and do a deep clean so that you can ... Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  AM to complete your evaluations. And, I know you?ll be pleased to hear ... way to contribute to curricular improvements at MIT. Your constructive ... due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... supposed to leave the lid on your tupperware when you microwaved something ... body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  takes time for you to settle down at a table and get all of your materials ... to use your imagination to fill in the blurrier pixels. Gene ... . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... should try to finish as many items on your bucket list as possible, so that ... really just change your thoughts and reactions to the world like that?” i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  them are meaningful.   let's get right to it! https ... stafe, make the most of your quarantine, and don't forget to always sing ... music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  . Sadly, you're not supposed to bring cameras in, so I couldn't take ... by passing the information to the proper people and getting the ... chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  -of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my ... run, there's still time to change the road you're on and it makes me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn ... !!! So here it is, good luck to you if you're applying to college, and good ... "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  ? Parfaits. So, I hope that you have been using the blogs to get an accurate ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... , your personal worth is determined by your workload: your lack of sleep

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006