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  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  Transitioning from first to second semester has actually been pretty ... schedule. Compared to first semester, I now have more classes, more homework ... ! Academically, it was the best part of my week. It felt great to be back helping

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap syllables between adjacent words, often to comedic effect. An inattentive ... previous summers UROPing on campus, so I was hyped to explore the world

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies, and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during ... monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two ... package of semisweet chocolate chips INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 375 ... dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white, white walls, my roommate and I have taken it upon ourselves to overhaul ... still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  didn’t think I had been super committed to CPW activities, but I actually ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met ... is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something ... everyone was posting about first coming/coming back to college, and all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... phone service, and no problem sets. I went to Powell's, brought my old ... described them to a friend "like stacked rocks." They are delicate and hard at

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well.  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56 ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... busses to more expensive and less environmentally friendly planes, unless ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the opportunity myself. That's an easy thing to forget when you've got your head

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  before to finish three psets, so we were planning to keep each other awake. xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... . You just have to not join every single club/organization that you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010