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  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at which point it starts to become a pain-in-the-knee idea, progressing to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I mostly live off my credit card.) It's always good how to learn to cook new things. So I went with My Suitemate Linda, and we learned how to make

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place ... that this school saw in me. Even moreso to be able to share my adventures

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  suddenly remember how to breathe. I got a 68 on that take-home exam. (Learn ... pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  about how hard they had to work, you will glance at the other MIT grad in ... happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary ... life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  things from different angles and in different lights, also being willing to ... Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my ... proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... had the chance to work with the actual machinery involved in ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome ... -off things like "How much do you know about Canada?" and "Lockpicking 101" to ... , in which a gazillion MIT students teach awesome one-off classes to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  people who may also like to point out that I haven't blogged in like two ... during the school year that you didn't quite get to because you were ... you don't have class until February is pretty fun to rub in the faces of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  !), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try ... shouted, "Wait, where does my foot go next? Wait how am I supposed to put my ... three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  work together in order to accomplish their goals in the woods ... called Curveship.js, which allows you to view a story in [annotation note ... through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  actually did this week and wondering how in the world I'm going to fit all of ... admitted students meeting which happened to take place in the town of ... ! Responses to Comments: Adelaide said: And, in case you haven't seen this, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify ... . I ended up getting a PhD in computer science after a few post ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  to get the city's approval to make it an in-person ceremony at the last ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program ... misfortunes to the point where we cried together in the hallway afterwards and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  surviving in a car. It's lovely to recall how much of myself I poured in to ... , modern me stepping in, how interesting it is that this is when I learned to ... . To quote: It's funny how I feel a little bit frantic a low

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  . We'll show you how to use Zephyr to hang out with friends, get help ... you don't have to drive to get here. See how much maple syrup you can ... with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015