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Blog / About Decisions
The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...
as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of ... work for everyone, up and running by CPW) But I digress. As I am sure -
Blog / Academics & Research
I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history
lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was ... the class, I had barely stepped foot in a proper gym. To me, the -
Blog / Prepare for MIT
Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program
-frosh considering Ebony Affair this year or in the future, I would highly recommend ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap ... wrap for Ebony Affair! In the span of 3 days, I got to meet people from -
Blog / Academics & Research
italy research in pompeii
; Last semester, I took (3.094) Materials In the Human Experience ... top of the little tower. While I would have liked to go to the top of ... there, I took this chance to briefly lock the frosh up in one of the -
Blog / Events
Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.
, I would've burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the ... the essay-editing process, I asked some pairs of fresh eyes (in the form -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…
approached an incoming train, which would, in seconds, be directly in front of ... Requirement (GIR) classes I would be taking, and which of them would be through ... I've been very excited about coming to MIT, and those moments in which -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Comfort Matters A unique application process
-- possible replacement chairs! I quickly did what any normal student would do ... smaller than I would like but is the same size as the current desks so it ... faith in the higher-ups to choose the correct chair so I made sure to let -
Blog / About Decisions
Paper Planes You ask, I answer
applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... (Unnamed applicant #2), I would start by saying that standardized tests are -
Blog / Challenges
Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen
-opening experiences have been things I never imagined I could or would do before as an ... more useful that what I learned in classes. Use the best tools at your ... Orientation has begun. Convocation starts in less than an hour, where -
Blog / Academics & Research
Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.
department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky ... people. I actually started writing down things they said in class, because -
Blog / MIT Life
Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?
scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop
In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading ... Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand -
Blog / MIT Life
Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*
bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... intricacies when we approached a couple heading in the opposite direction. I ... . Hello Susan Hockfield. There, I feel a little better now. In other news -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!
acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... enterprise… …and then Mr. Spock walked in, hair greyer and ears rounder than I ... Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with -
Blog / MIT Life
¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT
school year, and I thought it would be interesting to hear their insight as ... more valuable than ever. In the MIT dorms, you have your friends ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????
for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... on in the Garden State. I had just finished an article bemoaning the -
Blog / Events
Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!
videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... , thesis projects), but I also learned about architecture in general ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were -
Blog / Admissions
Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.
the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... until I move into Cambridge will quite possibly be the longest in my life ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I -
Blog / MIT Life
Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.
humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in