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  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... "event" would be outside the scope of this post, but there Yan presented me ... , and pointed us up a hill. Being clever prefrosh, we recognized the hill

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  event: * Your link in the chain reaction should be no wider that 2', no ... string pull. Be sure that it takes no more force than the hanging weight of ... . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting ... 'm going to be honest with you, I cannot for the life of me remember the ... . Okay, the essay is done, Problem 5 is actually super easy despite being

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  'll be participating in Orientation. Sunday, I had the opportunity to dim ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  've finished selecting the class, man - you should be happy, you should go ... I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but ... look forward to bumping into them on the Infinite and watching them grow

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  semester i tell myself i am as busy as can be, and then the next semester i ... yes. today i feel very sylvia plath all the figs rotting off the tree ... , and they told me i may be a scientist, not an engineer at heart. this

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  love Simmons. I like being able to come "home" at the end of the day and ... When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go ... 've lived here for the past year or so, thinking about what it'd be like if I ... I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  top of memorizing all the music. Nevertheless--it should be a really ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... . Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on ... of the instructors joked about it looking very appetizing but being

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  the liberty to choose to be on a meal plan or instead rely on other food ... being featured on the coveted pages of Chop Stir Hack? First, we dormspam ... the wonders of celery. In the meantime, be sure to check out our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  while at MIT, the school offers us the opportunity to be as happy as ... trick question, aren't you? It isn't. And the right thing here is to be ... , this is a tough one. 1) Be pretty much the coolest person ever. If that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation). And that would be the last assignment for Rhetoric this semester ... running what appears to be the first version of linux ever, but even being ... Several things happened last week of note. Monday was the first day

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National ... complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  of the course is: reading poetry. A lot of it. To be honest, I barely ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... joke here] Term is in full swing: pset parties are everywhere, the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Holidays from MIT! Images of the Season

  

  Happy holidays!!! Right now, some of you may be frantically ... . Some are expecting the EA application decisions tomorrow. No matter where ... memories below. From the Department of Chemical Engineering: (drawn on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 15, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  . Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to the creators) is now all over the web, having been covered, among other ... -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  , arch-rivals of the Chicago Cubs. I guess he thought it'd be funny. The ... TIM THE BEAVER. He happened to be in Stata the day I was carrying Flat ... 's finals! So you probably won't be seeing updates from us in the next few

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... process with the class 24.900, Introduction to Linguistics. Despite it being

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  . It would be somewhat forgivable if these minor wounds were a result of ... is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling ... 've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010