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  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... would’ve never guessed I’d enjoy it, but I did immensely because of the ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep ... -inducing dream about carrots baking cakes in the interim. And then I decide that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  MIT proper, I have been in Spain for more than two weeks! I don't know how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... beautiful country. Recap (for people who are wondering why I'm in Europe

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your essay. I have never ... say than what fits in 500 words. If that is you, I'd encourage you to ... s/he would give you. They may tell you to send in the longer essay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  with insightful questions. I would rather enjoy my time at MIT in ... prefer smaller classes, and I liked that Math in Moscow had classes with ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  DOTA2 players Tune in next time to learn about how I managed to get ... competitions later, I'm still having a blast. I came to learn how to dance and ... -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent ... lead and how much they contribute to our Air Force. In ROTC, during the ... crucial to our nation's defense rejuvenated my enthusiasm in ROTC and I can

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in ... didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... one application in particular that I poured my heart into - I wrote nine

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  bit nervous going in, I thought the film did quite a good job; I enjoyed ... author of Hitchhiker's Guide, spoke at MIT while I was still a student in ... opening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in 1999 (the first day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours ... 's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for ... episode. I finally got sucked in this year - it's really good.  

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... other class I've taken, would complete the concentration, but the thought ... filled-out completion form. I turned in both to the HASS office, and felt a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit ... for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to get the shot because I’ve had really bad experiences with injections in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... experience in industry. But I still had nothing going for me over the summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  2005), holidays (in 2004, July 4 was the first holiday I took off ... night in spring 2005), and a lot of times in between. I guess I'm a little ... do it -- although I wouldn't really be in favor of taking 7.03 as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a solution, I openly annotate my own example sheet for discussion in ... to compensate their education for their GPA. In comparison, I will

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

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