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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  told me to not spend a dime on food, which I, sadly admit, did, and I saw ... though I did not attend them and can’t talk from experience, I encourage ... aspects that are not just the free ice cream and Korean BBQ, and truly ask

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  thing I wanted. The pathway to recovery is not always so straight and ... turns out, for the rest of your life, too.     I'm not sure ... not to plan everything out, but to switch it up, and have it be a rest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  melt plastic casing together. He fastens screws and bolts not with a ... --but not always in the condition that you’d like. Rows and rows of stalls ... complain about not having opportunities or resources to do whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  shaped not only by technical standards, but by the often utopian ... ; students not assigned to research for that week will write a short blog post ... may not have thought about the Internet as a thing that has a social

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not ... not have been academics--first off, academics is hard. LIKE REALLY HARD ... , after all, to keep being tolerant, when you feel like others will not do

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

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  on Halloween, and cards on Valentine’s. It’s not that traditions ... small but not very small, reports that he only heard the phrase Valentine ... Day this week, especially if you’re a grownup or otherwise not in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... sister, who is not really a baby. If you want to come away from this with a

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

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  their grubby hands all over it. Not cool, especially for an airplane as ... extreme minority, if not unique, for having a female captain, and we were also one of the few teams not comprised largely of white males

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I ... ! Because the majority of America is not uneducated, wasteful, and overweight. I ... . Make sure you're not pushing your physical limits. I felt so energized

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not ... Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not ... they don't tell you is that doing so is sometimes not so much like a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  housemasters' dogs (confession: I'm not entirely sure whether the dogs have ... course), “This does not seem trivial at all and some of us did not have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not ... looked down at my rollerblades. “Not with those you can’t.” I pulled off my ... world where I’m not absorbed in every hour of the day; I’m glad that come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ? Pull yourself out from under that rock. I'm not talking about that silly ... students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry ... .50, you can get a more-than-filling lunch with not-quite-all the fixin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  s or something. It may not be abundantly clear, but the fall foliage ... people would spend too much time on their computers and not enough time ... still won. (Also taken by Sam) That evening, several of the guys (not me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  misleading with my title. They're not 3D glasses. They do, however, allow you to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... practical substance.) It's not just a chemistry thing, either. The physics

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must ... instead! last but not least of the freshman bloggers, we have Emad Taliep ... stood. That'll show my mom not to call my drumming a nuisance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... . Do NOT forget your camera! I think I came home from CPW last year with close to 200 pictures, and I would have taken more, were it not for the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  of 'school-sponsored activity' - not nearly as catch-phrase-y and often ... . It's true that boys can't live here, but the cleanliness is not due to ... accurately demonstrates the size of our room, it does not provide a faithful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  . ****Katelyn Gao = my former roommate, not an acronym. In the past week, I ... cooling on the rack. The loaf was tastier this time but still not French ... not, because I just made this up and I think it sounds copyrightable

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  and kick Eva Mendes in the head (not in person, sadly), run on Memorial ... the middle of the rain-swollen night. It's kool not to have skool, yo ... envy. The view, however, is not intended for the weak of stomach, or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009