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  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  #1: If you're paying for your food, you're doing something wrong ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to ... Sharpe Brothers (juggling, diabolo) (For those that don't know, "a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing ... -hop/modern) - Live Music Connection Guitar-off (electric guitars, shredding) (For ... , Lobdell Dining Hall (2nd Floor of the Student Center) (Click here for a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... went for a walk. Freshman year I made a big deal about having a final on ... year I turned 21 the day before my 8.05 final, studied til about 4am and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  hang out. Here is a full outline of all of my plans for IAP. Physics ... slowly because I refuse to pay for Crunchyroll premium. Also, I introduced ... bonding time for us :3 For your viewing pleasure, the torture dance from

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back ... body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... expressing sympathy for the students involved (without me even identifying

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  't been thinking about it. Literally, the thought hadn't crossed my mind for ... , after a year (even though it's a week 'til finals. When did THAT happen? I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... College, for one. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Bob Jones ... month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ’ve been here for two years. At real college, not imaginary internet college ... allowed for tomorrow”. Now, I have to check the weather every morning to decide how many layers to wear, whether to bring an umbrella, etc. For

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  1992: Violent Femmes 1991: Jesus Jones 1990: Psychedelic Furs 1989: ‘til ... Trick / 'til tuesday 1983: The Tubes 1982: The Ramones 1980: Battle of the ... spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags ... , someone else called me to help wrestle for fake money. I came to help and ... -eyed from staying up til four am. I'm so thankful that I've touched so many

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  estimate: 3.5 hours. Read and post a forum response for this week ... , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday ... ="Though I appreciate the opportunity to rewrite this paper for a better grade

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  had written "Come Together" as a campaign song for Leary! Getting sucked ... fascinating, so when I was looking for a [annotation note="the art requirement ... historical context for it, and explains the musical influences behind the songs

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  What is DTYD? Dance 'Til You Drop is an annual party hosted by my ... Conner's Porter Room, but since the dorm is closed for renovations, it took ... so many alumni came back for dtyd L, but boy do i wish i was there to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish ... started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events ... the Harvard Bridge for the first time. we talked like we had known each

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever ... in Germany for a summer, I could read and understand the language. But ... guaranteed. Basically if you fall in line, the spot is waiting for you and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever ... , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  . I'd been putting off this day for weeks. But it could be put off no ... on Tuesday Night Yesterday I finished two 11-page essays for the same class. Rhetoric is not a HASS I recommend for the particularly faint of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008