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  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  trip and started looking in to how I could attend. Maddie Hickman is ... train ...please let them know that there is a free bus from Pen station to ... Every once in a while something so noteworthy comes along that it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... duration of CPW, each pre-frosh is paired with a volunteer student host, who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm ... reduction to the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and how Professor Dalzell is ... has a South African accent and how Professor Amon was so pregnant during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the ... standing in front of a few dozen professional astronomers (+ Carl and his ... a snack, but otherwise pretty much drove straight through Baltimore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  give you an idea of how much pain this is, Next House makes shirts saying ... teacher is speaking in French. Only phrase known in French is "Je suis un ... ". 12:23 PM: Group digresses to discuss whether a third nipple is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... , a undergraduate organization that shows second-run movies in stereo ... opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... said, I thought a lot of this information is/was/would have been useful ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  usually take to do a Ph.D. program? Like how long is your Harvard one? It ... average in most of the programs is around five and a half years, but there ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  with. A less-trafficked study cartel in a lesser-known library is ... . It's a time to show how much and how effectively you've prepared and ... Cornwell "I've never studied this much //21" by Jusuf "How to Make a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . How much fun would a roller coaster be if it didn't scare you? Each and ... 't know how it happens, but everything seems to work out in the end. MIT is ... see this weird in-between age bracket that is usually absent from campus

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  already! Its SO good omg. The dough is flaky and buttery, but not in a gross ... the recipe is in the dipping sauce. We didn't put as much jalapeño and ... 's pretty magical about this dish is seeing how quickly so much liquid gets

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... (shown concurrently on our television with a giant strawberry dropping in Harrisburg and a white rose dropping in York), we played two party games that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  experience, a journey cut too short, it's tragedy is it's beauty; and in the ... reflection shows just how much you've grown in your brief time together. "No ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  stop pulling all-nighters. you complain about how much money you spend on ...   you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... 're in your head a lot. you make decisions only after considering all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  further. Plus, all the CS classes seem so cool. And a major in CS is the ... enjoying thinking about cities in a formal way and exploring how technology ... how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  take notes on a laptop or by hand in class? and how much homework on ... -notes exams? how do you make A or B in those classes? Those questions seem ... the exam is almost certainly graded on a curve, so if you have as much

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013