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  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... festival in the Johnson Athletics Center; I got to meet some really ... 's really incredible to see the diversity in student activities available at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing ... (sorry, I had to rub it in). Also, that whole stereotype of British people ... Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  just so happy at these events and it was amazing to get together with ... minor in 14 [layman's terms: Management Science with a minor in Economics] What's next: Working as an analyst for Lehman Brothers in NYC for their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only ... about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... they want to, when in reality they have lots and lots of things: running ... sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  we first came to MIT in August 2006, and will be once again when we ... noticing you went to MIT undergrad to a lady at a coat check. So getting your ... The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  will save you money in the longterm. Break the rules to maximize ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the ... been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... to 2005. Here it is used again in a rather informative 2006 blog post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house ... 'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if ... nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  crowded to get to see everyone!) included professors Les Norford, Esther ... long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the ... on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  secure in getting my stuff done now that I know I have enough time to do it ... MIT and I get to do things I love and find meaning in all day long ... lot of time eating brunch in Next dining, and proceed to mess around in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one ... going to pack our stuff up because we're getting kicked the fuck out, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units ... was in your shoes, so please feel free to ask me questions about SATs ... [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a ... exist in east Cambridge. My vegetarianism will probably end when I get ... carbonara. I was hungry and didn’t want to walk somewhere alone to get food

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... . Send email out to dorm: My dear countrymen, in light of the recent ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008