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• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... disappointed that this year's didn't include a couple of things on last years ... on it are rather boring ("Get your picture taken with Tim the Beaver

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first ... time - especially traveling alone. On one hand, I think it’s really cool that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we ... , late night talks, and going on adventures - come say hi at CPW!"]B1 ... of books on the windowsill i just think its so cute. sometimes people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on Saturday and, let me tell you, it's super worth 25 bucks. On the weekend ... from Downtown Crossing, which is on the [annotation note="if you're not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  few minutes on the 18th floor, where we first made sure to record our climb on the team scoresheet. We then took our pick of the water, Gatorade ... got tired and decided to take two breaks each climb – first on the 7th

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More ... would give a shoutout to every single one who lives on 2E right now, but I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes ... , whose paper art you saw on Sunday:     Kresge, by Erin M. ‘16: The east ... partly melted, and the roads were cleaned. The snow looked like flowers on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last ... ridden a bike exactly twice: once on an eighth grade field trip (I lost ... Mercedes, two mountain bikes mounted on the back. The trail went eight miles

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  on campus, and scoring free swag (Woo! Free Swag!). Of course, the ... /No Record :(. But no worries, I'm back on the blogosphere. Since today is ... like you" on Valentine's Day.) 1. MIT = opportunities, opportunities

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• 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…

  

  Fellowship, a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Kenneth ... economist in the nation aged 40 and under.  Dr. Gruber's research focuses on ... text. During the 1997-1998 academic year, Dr. Gruber was on leave as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  closest dorm to the Kendall Square T station on the Red Line.) By the way ... and leaves were still on trees. b) IT SNOWED TUESDAY NIGHT AND ... try unsuccessfully to slide on them and this is a run-on sentence if

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... drove up the East Coast on Saturday morning (well ok, my parents drove) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... poser, my 13-year-old brain said. Ride that skateboard around on Halloween ... getting on a skateboard again for the next six years. It wasn’t until a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  unfortunately the very last thing) on our priority list. It’s even below matching ... forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently ... these sessions take place on this really nice, 1.25ish mile, linear path

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the wait list. Students on the wait ... 1100 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of ... many people are on the wait list? We offered less than 4% of applicants

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  because I’ve only ever lived on one floor, and on that floor I’ve only ever ... typical Friday night. However, on an evening that was a Friday night, a very ... 8 am on a Sunday. I started out on BMF, the all-female floor I live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the waitlist. Students on the ... 1050 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of ... many people are on the waitlist? We offered approximately 3% of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed ... with my brother from Pennsylvania a week ago and I joined them on ... walk on the beach and Catching Fire at the movie theater by the yoga

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  've grown up on the stations in MA; my presets are ordered such that 104.1 is ... to and from my house on my own schedule. And when a friend suggests a ... is to pay to sit for four hours on a bus (more on that to come). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010