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  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  , sleeplessness, and profound superiority over Harvard in every regard*. Other considerations included aesthetic sensibility and whether or not the photographer ... of attire and companionship, Alex affirms to the unsuspecting viewer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic ... will be a non-lame blogger and give you a lot of hard integrals. Last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this ... person I had ever met from Singapore. He was very nice and extremely ... with the best and brightest from around the world. I didn't care that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that ... it home, however, are the colors of the sign. When yellow and red are

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... 't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay, so I still do exist and I still do blog ... sketchy liberal slums of UC Berkeley and the sprawling Spanish resort ... awesome atmospheric chemistry stuff, and, well, it's hard, unlike choosing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia ... Academy Award 3. I am eating french fries dipped into Frosty right now and ... wearing only shorts and a t-shirt. In February! Anyway, the worst part of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then ... some repeated pumping noise somehow, and I was only just at that moment ... powder, so I used a little cumin, cinammon, nutmeg and dried hot pepper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... like dead turkeys, underwater flame drills, and booby-trapped reactors at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is beautiful around here (let's hope it lasts through next week!) and everyone is ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... , except it was late at night, and the sign was clearly no longer applicable ... through this outdoor driveway area connecting parking lots. Yes! Lo and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... : silence and song. Moments of laying down on my bed, looking at the ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... , and less concerned about the market, but one part stuck out to me: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... extraneous backstory and distracting pop culture references, I was trying

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure ... and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long ... and too kind to be bound by such fleshly desires, but eventually it is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... friends and "good" conversations Musicals I like How my day is going

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... wants that from me. A rant about the GRE and standardized testing in ... until I get through my impending batch of interview weekends January and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  is 6'014 km away from the 'Tvte. Time flies (seriously), and I ... -of-Semester and the Session Examination block. Most courses have exams during the ... , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  pretty dated at this point, even though my friends and I just discovered it ... ’s a node graph that shows you who sends you emails and who sends emails ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017