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  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  't really be paying to see. After a quick "coming attractions" replay of the ... movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... rocked and I think you should buy it. Actually, I have no idea how to play

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  useful to have some flour in a shaker jar. It makes it a lot easier to dust ... more vegetarian lately and that can make it harder to hit the daily ... and for pineapple fried rice! I used to have a ton of cans around

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  toast at the hostel's free breakfast just couldn't cut it, so I headed to ... overpriced, I've still got extra charges for using it in a foreign country ... 've gotten hungry since I started writing this entry, so it's time to go do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... sandwich To toast my sandwiches, I often use the toaster ovens found in the ... post, Amee S. '25 suggested yet another... recipe(?) to include. It's so

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... enemy bunker 400 meters away. You’ve got two hours to destroy it and ... ’re going to do it, what support you have (if any), and the callsigns

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... -eyed twenty-three year old MIT Admissions officer used to be; how did that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  late? She can't mail it out because of Wilma. Also, if I used paper ... best presents you to us. 3. You can list it either place, though if you ... together? It's difficult to write about research without using specific

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  even sent a police officer down in Crystal River, Florida, to check it ... , Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is called WILG, short for Women's Independent Living Group. Last summer, there was a fire

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  can open myself up to new experiences and learn from others. it's been ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands ... ensue. Doesn't that sound familiar? "It's safe here. I can shoot things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  problems at all. As it came around the final turn to approach the finish line ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... like the sad sad idealistic glass it was pretty quickly. You know you ... I'll actually read, I still get kind of nervous when I can't check it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this ... Relativity 24.900- Intro to Linguistics Only, as it turns out, 6.081, 8 ... 's not too big of a deal if I don't take it now. I'd love to take 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  things to blog about. But, since it's my last semester as an undergrad, and ... write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if ... 've been waiting to take it forever. It turns out that I don't remember any

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... the February Updates & Notes form. You'll use the FUN form to tell ... applicants who are admitted. It's hard to get into MIT. Being deferred means

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course < ... completing an economics minor! I added 14.01 to my sophomore fall and quickly

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  ! You can use it a little more slowly and carefully if you use Barron ... It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping ... can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new ... otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020