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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  "] from the tech[/caption] My guess is that this was something of a ... , was far from the CPW as we know it today. A column published in the Tech ... 1989 to 1991, but no articles. There's a single article from 1992. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  (or even a C) prevent you from coming to MIT and being pre-med. Every ... question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... black girl was turned away from a Yale fraternity’s “white girls only ... completely different from me, in a way I had never experienced before. They

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... posts with my strongest memory from that time: the night that I told my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of campus. Here is the view from the Longfellow Bridge from the MIT side. MIT ... hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from ... was waiting on... but that's a story for another time."]EA decisions[/annotation]vividly, as though it's only been a month.   I knew I would be nervous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  in a way it wrenched me from the nightmare in which I'd been a living ... usually a good break from problem sets. I spend maybe $40-50 a week on ... is a page from my lab notebook with some sketches of saturn. These

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  other people.  Taking a break from the grind. Life isn’t all about work ... is across the river from campus (to get to campus is a 5 minute scooter ... . I live a 5 minute walk from Newbury, one of the most iconic streets in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  to understand that it takes physical presence to build a home away from ... 's important from the beginning to become a familiar friendly face among the ... from Day 1 to attend talks and ask questions. Freshman year, I was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  as a ghost who didn't know he was a ghost, an undercover robot working for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... jumped from a lowish A to a solid A to an even more solid A from my ... audience, acting) which totally didn’t stop me from being in a play in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  can make the world a better place.    An inspirational image from ... issues, from 1995 to today: a glimpse of perspectives that exist, including ... manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good ... MIT experience to be like drinking from a fire hose, I feel that, about ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  all means bring them from home. Closet organizing-type devices are a ... fixing anything up you can just get one from Target. 15. A small first aid ... need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  of a Spice Theorem I've been following, with a little help from, in my ... seasoning, S seasonings, S1: selected from a blend above bouillon, S2 ... : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  "]calendar[/annotation]. 7 - iceland.mp4 We went to Iceland!!!! A separate blog on this from ... , some firmer. From freshman year until sophomore spring, I was a proud ... 2022, I had entered MIT as a wide-eyed freshman, freshly graduated from

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  our investors made a good chunk of his money from the infamous MIT ... a lot). Feeling the blood drain from my lips when we realized a ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  conversation to remember. I could never learn from a professor I don’t know ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through campus windows. Every classroom exuded a dream glow. Every view overwhelmed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  older, he understood where this instant camaraderie came from--a shared ... AudreyRose, who didn’t come from a Greek-affiliated family but knew people ... Office of Minority Education, who outlined the advantages from a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020