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  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... ."]Dormspam[/annotation] asking students how much they spend monthly to see the cost of MIT outside

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese ... the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... what feels like eternity without actually getting all of the pus out, so ... help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically ... good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the ... , founded the center and pioneered the field), so it's a bit of a home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... somewhere like the NRAO. Alternatively, you could switch out of professional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... rejection can't really derail things that badly if you kept sight of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  ,[annotation note="including photos of each of the 46 points of interest"]many of ... th—Back Bay Fens, #25-32 I started part one of the journey with the ... three trips, the first of which would be the trek from Next House all the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the ... over 20. This was one of the most difficult things to do. Over time, the old site had accumulated dozens and dozens of beloved pages, like the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  ;closed” and will not admit any additional students this year for the Class of 2017. We've seen all the wonderful updates many of you have been ... It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... did, but because of the behavior of admissions officers and parents. Admissions officials routinely boasted of the number of applicants with perfect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their ... , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate ... degrees (celsius), with the daily mean being 28 degrees. in the summers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people ... [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them ... - the research being done, the classes offered, and the opportunities

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  the Charles River, Next House offers stunning views of the riverfront ... beautiful courtyard over which many of the rooms look. Next House offers a ... I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these ... dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... . Add the beef to the onion. Add about a cup of craberry juice (I used

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  degree[/annotation] weather. 15. Kill the batteries of your equipment ... -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my ... ’m in a weird purgatory of majors. Hmm calibration implies the existence ... changed majors to [annotation note="one variation of the mechanical

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021