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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  't been to a CPW. I am so, so ready for CPW 2022. ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... merged to a single Campus Preview weekend. It was held [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... surprised to hear they had a pretty heavy course load, despite having most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... income. I would bring nothing but a $20 bill with me to the supermarket to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  due to the relocation of the water cooler. Trust me; it makes a serious ... bizarre than Naked Abe Lincoln. 11:17pm: I call Rebecca to ask a question about her article, which is on a proposal to replace the UA Senate with a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... -quality, glossy paper led to a wider palette of colors. Collectors started buying ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  were both ready to flip a table. The fourth time they took out a ticket ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... , and my day to day thoughts while in Ethiopia into a single, coherent piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... to figure out a system that works for you. Time management is really

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008