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  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a ... . Marilee is speaking in this pic... ...followed by a performance from the ... registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  bread that Matt brought in, too!) Here is a picturesque slice cut by ... 8:52AM Good morning, There is delicious apple pie made by Jamilla in ... -the-sky/ Today, for Pi Day, Kris brought in a chocolate cream pie, which was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  bought a pair of roller blades. I forgot how much I really enjoy skating ... is it? Guess in the comments. VII -- I finally got a new hard drive ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and ... ’t sound like a big deal? Oh, it is. Many distance runners around the nation

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  in at MIT if..." you love being miserable! Now wait just a second ... and wake up in a bath tub full of ice, your kidneys removed, and a pile of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I’d be living with Kosher keeping people, much less on a floor with ... that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously convert. (Lack of bacon creates a positive Δ in the reaction of my becoming

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  like, being alone in a world outside the auspices of MIT. He confessed that not much was different. That he sometimes felt like a child acting ... thought of them as cool people. He talked about how much he'd been learning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  " action figure for $29.95. So is Obama a geek? In the words of Alan ... him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... -Elect, Barack Obama, as a geek! Since MIT is the epicenter of Nerd Pride, I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for-the-past-month-is-a ... the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  , getting an A- is pretty much the best thing in the world. Well, besides ... one where Spock says "Logic is a little bird, chirping in a meadow." So ... by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  :00, 2:30, 3:00 or 3:30 for a fun-filled tour of the Tester Lab, down in ... cookie baking/eating party, because I am in love with WILG so much that I ... DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  in a frat. This is a thing! Frat life here is active! And frats here ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  is never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot ... . Macgregor is divided into nine entries; I've lived in A-Entry and D ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  everything, if only for a moment? That's how clicking that button felt for me ... , is a beautiful, beautiful phrase (and as I said earlier, I really wish ... are in the "snapshot statshot" Matt just made. 1. Get a slightly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  them in the box, and compact it into a brick shape (this is more ... rolling in soon, this unfortunately means 12 am on a Monday morning... Step ... !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple ... plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my ... could become a member of MIT-EMS. I think there is some pressure to ... yourself in some way. And while this is surely an admirable outlook on life

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  actually pass the swim test? In other words, is there a point at which MIT ... how "likely" it is that someone not admitted in the freshman process ... it.. is there any penalty? cuz I might have a tournament that weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005