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• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... am your spider. Don’t get me wrong, I’m also ridiculously excited to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Rockwell Cage. I see a friend in the crowd. I tell him that I'm trying to ... don't. I take a nap in the ESP office instead. I wake up and head to ... in the midst of a busy time in the semester? What does it say to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  student in your hall) A midterm but no final 4 or 5 problem sets A ten-page ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT ... to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  @mit.edu. They're your best bet. Alex wrote, "In your opinion, is a 780 Math Level ... while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  of being in a fraternity when the time comes around, but to your ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own ... potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... awesome vs. IAP remaining looked something like 1/x^4, culminating in a ... :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  Society, of which Ternus is a member. Long story short, Ternus explained to ... asked me if there was anything in particular I wanted him to take a photo ... Building 72. Although Cody and I left a little before sunset in order to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  say all you're going to get are tips on how to eat like a West African ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where ... . In a nutshell, summer is a diced onion, once carefully layered and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a ... I sat down to have my 3 hours of lecture spat at me right in a row ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  student, you're eligible to purchase a discounted monthly T pass. If you don ... stops appear to be in a straight line from each other on the T map, so I ... the zoo. I get lost a lot.) If there's anything you need for your dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  the tip of the iceberg...to get a head start on your plans check out our ... ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... Counselor on-hand in the Student Center or schedule a 20-minute appointment to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  over after a few days. 2. I am old and need to get a real person job. I'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  onto the Stanford campus to give a guest lecture in web security, and ... pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... kill us. Later that month we took a short trip to Tahoe to traipse

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ), happens to be pals with Mark Bathe, who is a professor in course 20, who ... following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

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

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  -wracking. You don't really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn't stop you ... C in 8.02, but at least I felt like a human person with attachments to ... interaction made your day? The trick to talking to people (at MIT and in real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW ... link to a given user's interests in academics as designated in his

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to ... change your mind. Here's the important stuff that you get in your box. You

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009