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  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the ... st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  involved in that bus going over that cliff?? How?! And why isn't it next ... , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  themselves here). The problems are stated in a straightforward fashion, making ... 's hardest problems: In a mathematical competition, 6 problems were posed to ... achievements in the academic arena as much as achievements in the sporting arena?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the middle of a field. "How interesting", observed the astronomer, "all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... Sinclair. At one point in the show, Esther is described to be the sort of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  in for our 2 hour wait. [2 hours later] OMG guys! This is it! Batman ... understanding at MIT that if every light in the green building (both sides) is turned off, the world will end. There is always somebody in there doing

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be ... guest-speakers at the event, when I myself had been a prefrosh sitting in ... It feels a little strange seeing CPW from a host's perspective this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  in 2.007 (in my opinion) is a document called "How To Build Your ... controlled robot is crucially super robust and reliable.  In a huge upset, Josh ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my ... Beaver, with a built-in AI that you can have conversations with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people ... right attitude towards a very expensive education, but truth is, sometimes real food is a serious priority (you will see why soon). RICE. ORANGE

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me ... Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  've blogged a lot about FPOPs in the past. This year's FPOPs include (update 10 ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in-a ... -random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... how to use • And a green sticky note! This was the sticky note that was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  So we were a little more efficient this year in making decisions (i ... alphabetical order: Paul Baranay '11 lives in Simmons, and 20 is currently the ... ' money in Hold'Em, pursue training as both an EMT and a Medlink, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the first one there! I suppose there's a lesson in here somewhere: no matter how dedicated you think you are, at MIT, odds are someone else is just as committed than you are. I think this is actually a good thing, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  Juice is amazing, my dog's sitting on my left foot...") and not in any way ... 't being spent taking a minicourse, going to a country in Africa, or becoming ... the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... more importantly in the fact that I had reached a point in my life where

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024