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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on ... an entire day to one project you can get a lot done. My teammates and I ... with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  about being a cast member: the actual show. The reason I’m only getting to ... single helps me get back to my priorities” and “my body can run a half ... Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  provides or offers a product or service that could be used to get around DNS ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion ... them. With MO around, I could get answers to my questions from world ... Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  . I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can ... essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA ... 'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch the final ... to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  extent, it doesn't matter. If you're good enough to get into MIT, you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and ... CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  HARDBALL. Ask current students anything, and you'll be able to get a good ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  , they exceeded their maximum occupancy and had to close at 11:30 to get ... toward your GPA at MIT. Therefore, your goal, in general, is to get more ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  sophomore blogger will get to blog Ring Premiere! So I must admit, I didn ... and get to wear them for 3 extra months before we do!) Either Snively ... time getting back to us about everything, but finally we got things

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  coaster and fort, and freshmen get to help out. It's a pretty cool way to ... the point that it gets confusing to decide where to go. This is why it ... students! As an undergrad, you get access to the Infinite Connection portal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017