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  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  into the CPW live chat already know, your hosts will be contacting you ... be :) If you've checked out the CPW website, you will have noticed a ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... transfer. "He spent the whole tour talking to me about what he didn't like ... School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... where the lowest level of a class will still challenge you and teach you ... give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... getting sick of dining hall food, or getting used to it. i will be eating ... lightness of being. two prefrosh got my book. they emailed me within the past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  to the student body. Once I could be myself publicly, I was happy for ... default to “bad” just to be safe), I might as well add some pictures of the ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  the majority of the conversation will be focused on you, but do take ... will reach out to you using the contact information provided on your ... the conversation to be organic. The interview is a chance to talk more

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... to kill the time.[/annotation] The plan is as follows: I will be ... river! please excuse the reflection of my hands; you will be seeing a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... the past few months, I feel like we’ve really gotten to know each other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  run at the Z center. You'll find you'll be much happier if you take care ... behind. But the important thing to remember is don't be afraid to ask for ... After the chaos and confusion that was associated with MIT FPOPs

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  institutions out there. True, your experience will not be the same everywhere ... . Enjoy the little things in life. Whether that be getting to the T stop ... away from the experience. Be that a degree, a life lesson, a useful skill

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  's me, the reason my friends at MIT will stop being friends with me ... happened in the past and be born again in this new world, shedding away the ... about being abandoned, even if the only one you can really blame is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  "While Mens et Manus may be our decree when heard outside the school ... lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... being tested - the classes are hard and suddenly you're getting Bs and Cs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... because I had turned the wrong way, and the humiliation of failing in such

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... Steve Harvey. We were blessed to be watching a stream in which the ... temporary, something that has the power to be erased. no, what two east lacks

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  , the food your parents cook, and you will keep wishing to be less—less of ... always seemed to be apologizing.   I like to think  it was the ... static can be so desperate. I suppose the nice thing about getting dumped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  'll find a group of rock-solid people who will be supporting you always. But ... things to be the same. It's a lesson I'm still learning the hard way, as I ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  transfer, rather than aimed directly at the flame itself. [caption id ... The Amazing Devil. https://youtu.be/zIubvTVsBQo?si=6lNNuGQT7zmHyAzQ Being a part of the fire spinning community has been one of my greatest

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  his name, since he will be working in admissions next year. The next ... contents to be strewn across the table. (I apologize to all ... . I wanted to explain, "I have two more years to go! I didn't fail the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control" and the second one "Experiment."" -an embarrassed '12 "Can anyone help

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  , carefully, using our kitchen scale. Over the next few hours, there would be ... 's supposed to be, you know, making the bread rise. Oops. I switched to whole ... will succeed. And then you'll be delicious 😋😉

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020