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  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn’t get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I’m standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I’m able to sit at a computer for…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  The following is a guest post by Sam U. ’16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars–or even one of the nerdy…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  . From a blogger to the greatest people ever, Thanks Guys. P.S. It really

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of the quarter, and i also read three stories for CMS.307 workshop. the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities around the U.S. and it’s entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I always liked the idea of reality TV – capturing…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes haciendo algo más grande que yo

  

  Si usted leyó mi blog anterior, sabe que he tenido un Octubre muy duro. Sin embargo, la efusión de las respuestas de estudiantes de escuela secundaria y universitaria que comparten…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  MIT science reporter John Fitch interviewing computer science professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  Ohio experiences possible and awesome! P.S. to the Class of 2019: make

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  hypothetical student named Alyssa P. Hacker: alyssa (Every once in a while

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  On Tuesday, January 27th, Snowstorm Juno hit. Classes were cancelled for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and went through my normal morning routine: showering, packing my bag, and having breakfast. As usual, I missed…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  I won’t keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  It’s been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like yesterday. And September is…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

      MIT students are always pumping out crazy new inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they’re not like that…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can’t pull off during the semester, like staying up all night because spontaneous.   After a long Saturday, my friends…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  lecture has been better than the one before and the world of P vs. NP is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014