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  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... you guys have heard your teachers say that?) Thursday New House ... apparently, many of the prefrosh are early risers. We had to wait a long time

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  Biogas. Coming into this I should mention, I have never used, not to ... you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get ... three new things each time I go to research before or after class. I am

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  a time, so...you do the math. I ended up having to use two pans to ... but quite time-consuming; I attribute this to the size of the pan I had ... what I had in hand at the time. I used to make huge quantities of this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  would have a hard time believing that Nempnett Thrubwell and Coombe Dingle ... decided it was best to cook most of our time here. Despite the expense of ... know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  and a movie. Everything really has to have a purpose because there are ... blogger to talk about these things since I've only been once, and we have ... (potentially) Akira which is super cool cause I want to watch/have watched and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  smiles, and in my family, which had rushed to my side during my time of ... questions that may or may not have answers, to seek truth, knowing it may not ... pushing the boundaries. If that gets you going, you’re applying to the right

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some ... This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our ... This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  took it slow, taking time to rest up, take care of my body and mind, go ... from jumps to step sequences. This was my first time taking part in a ... TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth - Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... afraid that this time, our home was really going to be taken away from us ... , losing sleep only to have to wake up that next morning for even more 8am

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  will be waiting for you when you’re done. You have been warned. (I will ... opinions like those all the time. So personification is a helpful way to ... closely pursue any of these aspects of myself that I have come to love. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  that's not enough for you, I have four-hour long shifts times three left ... you have a problem) and have one page left to write on the linguistics ... seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  (especially med school), they will recalculate your GPA to fit into a 4.0 scale ... Jill would have to get off at South Boston...generally, I don't think MIT ... learn to play the part of Ben in the movie. ;) (he does it multiple times

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  others and destroys your lucidity. Instead I have been trying to, mostly ... artistic experiences. I have a much better model of what it means to be a ... something about the papers that have stood to me so far. Excited to keep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra ... have is to be confidently relaxed. I hope that you have gone both through ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  are not passionate about STEM. Although you don’t have to be a STEM ... Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  crewmates on the boards all the time, so I wanted to manifest that energy. At ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome Center, which opened last year. I use these two blackboards that have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... .[/annotation]This means I have to pause the dryer and tousle with the duvet a few times ... , which takes time. Then there's Knit and Stitch sessions to TA. And

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021