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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  stepped on the MIT campus? A. I don't remember 1983! But for 1992 I ... and don't prejudge what will catch your fancy - you never know.... I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  hours? Four? Should I just leave and get a sandwich now?) I still don't have a job. I still don't have an apartment. The cardboard boxes I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Authorized Repair person. I don't think I've been physically separated from my ... in Athena clusters involve using OpenOffice Word Processor (we don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  don't get a chance to fully exploit my potential to be lazy). The food ... room (with a TV!! except I don't get to watch TV that often...) - In

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  has low air pressure - after a few weeks one of my friends said, "I don't ... 'm supposedly in one of the dorms (McCormick) where people actually sleep. I don't

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  excited me. I don't like robots. Well, most of them are okay. The ones ... 's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT.... I don't come from an academic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  particular airline. I don’t think the problem is the self check-in machine or ... boarding pass and told me to get through Security quickly so I don’t miss my ... while that I don’t get “selected” by the TSA for a spot check, because

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  committee to read the entries you'd like us to see. (You don't need to clean ... Confidential, please provide URLs and username/screenname/etc. (If you don't, no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  . And now you're confused and don't know who's right and whether or not ... are. As long as you realize that you don't have to (and shouldn't!) do

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  president for a year. If you don't like where you're temped, you can move ... bring your own fire extinguisher. Don't laugh. Someone asked this once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  said something like "yeah maybe YOU don't, but I definitely do!" But ... after I started last semester. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  "no" to an amazing bunch of applicants. But those that we don’t admit ... waitlist is one that we know would be really great on our campus but just don’t

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... don't necessarily like. This tends to disappoint a lot of people. 12. If

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  their mark upon the Institute. By saying this, I don't mean to say that ... don't make their mark as well - but the changes those people bring to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  recognizes the title reference. Anyway, I don't know if you've heard, but snow ... . This includes snowmen. BUT!!! We're engineers, we don't just build lame

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am ... requirements will erode your massive brainpower, which is why I don't do it and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... like he was a mathemagician." ***** "But... you don't understand... it

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  parents don't share that opinion, BUT . . . I'd bet most anything that the ... . But, we all survive, figure it out, and end up moving forward. I don't

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me ... tie there. In retrospect, I don't know why I was so gung-ho about

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... thick, stubborn Problem Sets. Segways don't have airbags. But, for a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008