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  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  're thinking: "what else is new?" You yawn and ask whether I salivate and breathe ... describe how bright an object is. Milton could definitely have known that ... ambiguous by design, since Milton is fond of wordplay and double meaning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  Midyear Grade Report is intended for students who have indicated on the ... MIT Midyear Report is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Don’t fill it out yet – you need to read some important info below. What is it?  The

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  - but only because, as is so often the case with vacations, I return from ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the application season approaches. I hope to post it some day soon. That day is not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Community, so the Rainbow Lounge at MIT is the home to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially ... varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime ... handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... call them "heck weeks", especially if one is a wholesome student looking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  .005 (Thermal-Fluids Engineering I) PSET (Problem Set (Weekly homework)) is going ... 't colorful, but the rest are! 1) Ethernet Jack Burton-Conner is getting an ... surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  is small (4 students, one prof, total), together we make a writing ... . Every class day (which is Mondays and Wednesdays- that's today), we read a ... in sight, but then, well, there she is, old friend Liz-- And she opens

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  What I've noticed is that being an Admissions Blogger has turned me ... . Anyway, inside this dome is a library, known as the Barker Engineering Library. It's one of MIT's several libraries and it is one of the more

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft ... side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the most popular intersection in the dorm. If my door is closed my room is as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck ... Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end of August and is geared towards kids whose parents have been affected

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... is perhaps the most egregious. I know crying is a healthy outlet for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  the season is basically broken up into three mini seasons: Preseason ... postseason went. The NEWMAC Tournament Our first tournament is the conference championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which is often, I can escape into my room or a quiet place and when I don

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

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I ... . Winter break as officially started for me, so life is pretty good right now ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of people across the continents are actually celebrating is not an event which ... turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in ... translator between you, dear reader, and the cauldron math degeneracy. This is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to me. It is, of course, that same burnout which I felt just as I began my junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  Rule itself, though I will also be detailing what the Rule is here. While the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT student body, this post is one that I believe may be useful for high

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022