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  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there ... passed time by throwing out logic puzzles for each other to solve, and math

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I ... Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start ... , with myself as the tare, to carefully measure out my luggage and make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... your own risk. And, believe me, this is gonna be a long one. Still, I ... nametag, and I was really, really upset. Like, I was despondent. Utterly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game ... because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... GIRs, and have taken one CI-H/HW class. Somewhere between 25-30% of ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want ... dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? Hi! My name is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , I directed the MIT ESP SAT Program (and co-founded MIT ATI) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of ... (and other stuff) (like a floppy disk drive, as if you'd ever need one ... longer want), freefood (which is what it sounds like), and other mailing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of August and is geared towards kids whose parents have been affected by cancer. Each summer, a combination of kids and counselors (all of ... with sports, nature activities, arts and crafts, ropes courses, drama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision making. He is one of my favorite social scientists, and his work laid the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy ... , LARPing, literature, and so forth. Let me share with you a few stories of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  and dusted with cayenne pepper. The first time I slivered the crisp pink ... by the buttery sweetness of ripe apple meat, and finally dissolving ... and bipolar, or maybe tripolar, yet glamorous in a brutal Russian sort

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ... in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a ... of "things to stress about." (Especially because I like my job, and ... Services and Technology. (Yeah, IS&T's website is sort of an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read ... , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... other, and Adelaide is more important than Mystery Hunt. The puzzles aren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... 's basically flatbread"]Oath[/annotation] and [annotation note="Greek food with ... closest to campus, as well as [annotation note="sandwiches and delicious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  favorite things to do. You get to put ingredients together...and then feed yourself...and feel satisfied that you're being #healthy and #adult-y. What ... weeks! Panko-Crusted Fish and Roasted Potatoes   This recipe is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I ... , and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019