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• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for ... -page tome emblazoned "MIT CPW" in bright tangerine and maroon block type ... without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I ... 's difficult if you want to eat in the dining halls every night - you'd probably ... dorms have at least one kitchen, though, and in places like Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a ... become the best statistician in the world may try to take every statistics ... challenging classes like 6.7800 in their freshman/sophomore years. All these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  Aaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes ... pushed me toward 21E in the first place and to taking media studies more ... meanings, clever wordplays that I could include in my raps. I even made a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  time in my life. I never had gaming consoles when I was younger, so this ... enthusiasm. This blog post will come in two parts: a genshin advertisement, and ... cringe for unknown reasons."] RPG[/annotation] in which you play as one of

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... -watching shows in the dark hours of the night. As a nocturnal creature known as a freshman, I have heightened attention in the early morning hours before dawn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in ... weekend. In previous years, I’ve been woken by everything from Fall Out Boy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... "]four to six weeks[/annotation]. (Spoiler alert: it was not, in fact, general

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Ep."]tΞp![/annotation] While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT bubble might refer ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Ξp resides in a beautiful hundred year old brownstone that overlooks the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... Writing Autobiography"] 21W.022.[/annotation] In fact, I loved this class ... class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... your strength, the wobbly feeling in your legs when you climb stairs the ... training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... experiences in my life. BUT after two days we found a place that a) would allow

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... in mind that all libraries are good boys, and therefore these ratings ... dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018