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• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... other MIT students who had gone abroad made me really interested in the ... was up before them in the morning), my activities became more burdensome

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to ... commenters and my occasional check-in to bemoan your exponential progress or ... in, coursing through your veins, clogging over your heart. The spray

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... stuff in the overhead compartment, then moved my bag to another

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  necessary arrangements to attend, and are not waiting, in typical MIT fashion ... get connected with the right undergrad host. In the same way that we ... use all of that information, to make the best matches possible. Keep in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in ... another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I ... "hang out," as the kids say. I enjoy living in a place where we can have

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  obligations. In response, Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) dismissed the idea as "crazy talk ... whole semester. In the opening introduction to the book, Professor Maier compared the fervent discussions and debates that occurred in taverns and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  examples of things we've picked up off of reuse in the last two years ... weird freshmen Two queen size beds And a partridge in a pear tree ... up three freshmen, or a partridge in a pear tree. However, we did

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some ... in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  weekend via bus. We spent a lot of time singing off-key in Korean karaoke ... hall in the middle of the night... ...and frolicked in the snow, a phenomenon unheard of in the Bay Area during my lifetime excepting that one

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  , which would be 800 more than last year's 5,684. The increase in ... seen an increase in applications despite the fact that the number of high school graduates in this country has leveled off." [read more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact ... . Really that could sum up my experience – in fact, all of that food was ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... for everyone. So in short, if you don't get in, don't worry. It doesn ... contrary, if you don't get in it's a good indication that this probably wasn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... Cormick Hall :) To begin with, here's the front - in all its December snow ... 'date rooms,' in which people generally lock themselves up during exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  so that the chicken legs are 3/4 submerged in the water. 7. Place ... evaporate until you begin to see crater-like indentations in your rice about ... without sauce). It may help to place the carrots in boiling water for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... worsened my mood. I had gotten in to MIT. Now, I can't help but feel that ... . Really, you guys are amazing, and I can't wait to meet you all in person

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into ... , especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007