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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  . In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails from Zimbabwe, in the first three days that I met him in person. In fact ... theory over the coming years. Of course, I've also met a few people in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... post 25 things about yourself in the comments. HA. I'm enabling your high

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend ... myself calling everyone in my phone book to tell them i'm here and safe

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More on that later. I looked this up in Wikipedia and turns out, St. George ... of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about ... things are not as they should be in the UA. I've thought a lot about this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning ... fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in ... allotted time, I realized just how legit the work-energy relation is in real

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• 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 ... exam is next week.  I have been studying what we've learned in class and ... .501, or Marketing and Accounting.  I really enjoy these classes, and I can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... well-paced, so I didn’t struggle too much. I can’t wait to leave the ... credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... year, I wanted to spend my three months back in Texas. I looked forward ... worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Hell, but you all bond in that mutual suffering." I can't tell you how ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... eventually ;)"]life in Japan[/annotation]7 months from now? What do I want my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  In February, I interviewed Holly H. ’18, about her art gallery in the ... feels really powerful; it’s something that I’ve been trying to do more, in ... constantly be making things, and after a while I just had too many things in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... away in the other direction shouting "Freeeedommmmm". I don't know. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... going. She passed away, finally, in our house on a hill in Kafa. I can ... anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do ... One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  . Nothing says epic like "ESTA - ES - SPARTAAA!") I suppose you can be ... 'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013