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  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  girl at arm’s length, so that the symbol he drew on the board sits ... the theoretical physicists by the chalk handprints on their slacks.) At ... standing a foot away, grinning at me. Frank Wilczek was grinning at me. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  it so many times that it's just losing meaning at this point...) Last ... 's really good at helping you find out about yourself in that way. After all ... 'll never look at a rainbow the same way! Eating around Boston! Because I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... exam at MIT? please.) and I informed him that "um, yes. 8.012 is ... , when I was staying at my friend Daniel's house in New Jersey. I opened my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... . (Please send any hypotheses you may have to keri-lee at mit dot edu. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... next to me and was like, "Got a drink?" At that time I knew it was time ... wakarimasuka?" She didn't know where it was exactly, but she looked at the map

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... .  I have won an award at a Model United Nations conference, and in ... taught Latin at Splash! since sophomore year at MIT.  On April 30, you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... unacceptably tragic, especially at an institution where “sleep is like currency ... . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  studies at Oxford. Matthew L. Gethers III, Waterbury [Connecticut], is a senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... economics at Oxford. Two from MIT win Rhodes Scholarships November 22, 2008

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to ... creative consulting internship at 20th Century Fox when I was first ... posting with an artist at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, who was

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... is probably the least fascinating thing I have done at MIT. I've gone ... ), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... , building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... have other things to do. I was sceptical at first and slightly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners, who are an anonymous group who set the questions to be examined at ... paradise to most MIT students, staring at a 17 question Analysis problem set ... high burn-out rate during the 13 week semester at MIT is not nearly as

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  your status of enrollment. If you’re at home and there’s still even the ... , without a doubt, guaranteed, a student at MIT. It was officially official ... than for flashing at anybody who asks for picture ID. That means you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... at the great dome. This is the part of the tour when the tour guide

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  both named Roger Taylor. I started writing two entries while at home ... , called... Don't let it control you! about the work/play balance at MIT. I ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  glimpse at what made my CPW so exciting: My total caffeine intake curing ... night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South ... forever. Nance, Ben Jones, and Matt McGann were all at registration. I got

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... AP teachers would profess grandly at those fantastically boring ... exam I've taken thus far, at least at MIT, have been like sprints

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my ... MIT is more concerned with applications. For example, at Cambridge, you ... formulas. At MIT, you would get a more condensed summary of this theory, but

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  learning process. One of my good friends is a professor and administrator at ... performance!) Here's another example. Let's look at two students who we'll call James and Etta. Let's say that both are taking multivariable calculus at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007