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  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... 'll need to confirm that you're really who you say you are, of course, so if ... you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... college. We all showed up ready to have our minds blown by Joshua Bell ... him?) decided to show off two of his talents at the same time by playing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing ... -and-white television screen bolted to the wall.) POLK: (covers the mouthpiece; jerks ... made the jokes that will inevitably follow) Yes, sir. PIERCE: Your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  reading assignments? We will make a summary of your responses to the ... !* So I get to class on Tuesday and see this: "Interesting, that should ... announces that we're going to do a demo. "Snively, you're going to do this

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... actually played with your feet), and preparation for the holiday season. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have ... feeling it will start to get more detailed as the week gets closer. Some ... to get local restaurants to either donate food or give us discounts

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  #springbreak2011 Adventures to keep your taste buds tingling with excitement ... Diasporan Art) 5:45 pm – went to Union Square. Stopped by Crumbs Bakery 6 ... Rye, grabbed dinner, and headed to the bus stop to get back to Boston

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests ... ’t told us about your EA plans, or for those who haven’t visited MyMIT to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... to process all of your documents so that we can begin to read your ... three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... ).) Laundry As much as I know you want to live your whole life never having to ... Yeah… This is on here because that even though you deny it to your peers

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to ... trail your way back to the beginning. It makes the solution significantly less complicated to get to.   There's More Than One Answer Now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... lots of burgers around). I haven’t tried any yet but I’ll be sure to get ... walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  our GRT told him how to talk to the counseling deans so he could get his ... prospective GRT candidates, and I think we get to interview all of them this ... that the fact that I go to MIT leads to almost immediate stereotyping by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  by sleep deprivation. So we decided to take the ambiguity out of it ... to indicate your level of understanding. For example, I'd say I have a ... to make many many more come CPW next week! Up your excitement a few

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  about my UROPs this summer and all the time I get to spend with my friends ... I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... finish revising my novel by October, so we could send my manuscript out to ... time better (thanks, iCalendar) and how to use a mop (apparently you're

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... Point. It's said that if you kiss your significant other there, you'll get ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013