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  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  went there with this “what the heck, they’re paying for it so ... when I actually have to understand everything she says. The pictures look ... my Dad's money in exchange for the best education I can get. I hope I

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  for your spring. It's a metaphor that looks like this: You imagine an ... , looking up. I guess.) The ironic part is that I tried to ... Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING ... most definitely the norm now for most MIT students after its wide ... Square). Anywhoo, for me personally, the only inconvenience that I can (or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  next-forum and the EC mailing list, telling folks to look out for ... watched Mamma Mia five times this summer. (Alan: For the record, it’s been ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  we stayed in Caetani Castle for a week. We hauled our luggage up the ... me two days of begging Admir for him to promise to open the doors over ... . Look up, and you’ll see stars and passing satellites. Look past the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... :00 —  I have a shift guarding the school cannon for an hour, to make sure it ... looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  my backpack and raincoat, looked out the window, and exclaimed joyfully ... sparkle with intensity, and the stakes for everything seem higher, even ... in December for me to wear shorts three days in a row, and when the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the weekend was, "How much of MIT Blogs is real? Why does it always look ... the morning, but we love MIT for all the possibilities it offers ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... the NSF. I'll be heading off to MIT this coming fall for grad school in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  . “Yes! We’ve been looking all over for it. Thank goodness.” He dropped the ... ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the ... ponchos. We looked back toward the picnic table. Our tent was gone. I spent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super ... get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for ... for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  they seem to have closed?). I no longer have the stomach for it. Well, I ... turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at, although I have studied for a week to be able to answer the questions. I flip

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... a cubic formula for finding the roots of a cubic polynomial in terms ... formula for a given polynomial depends on how complicated the symmetries of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... advertisement for one of my friends. He jokingly mentioned that his goal for the ... arrived just in time for in-house rush and knew basically nothing about the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  close my eyes. But looking at that dome, I recall the triumphs I’ve made ... rose over East Campus, or even just remembering how ripe the world is for ... During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  the circumstances. I spent the last two weeks studying for finals, taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... , and I'll be doing my PhD for at least the next five or six years, so we'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen ... products though. He also invented the technology for the Atlasphere (an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... having survived the previous 6 months. It's not until one looks back that ... compounded - the arrival of Spring coincided with CPW, a weekend that is (for

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005