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CPW Hosts
at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few -
Blog / Challenges
Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it
change myself at a fundamental level because of the crushing vulnerability ... them. But you, here, you're capable of anything, because you're so bad at ... to get over these failures, no matter how many of them get thrown at me -
Blog / Events
Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art
arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks ... thought I'd been there all along, working at this godforsaken JOB!" The ... !" , and piggybacks out at a sprint. "Order up for Tasha?" calls an -
Blog / MIT Life
All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting
of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them ... , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all -
Blog / People & Identities
your best american girl on my first boyfriend
made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
City Strangers a comic
. Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible. You ... the middle of The Metropolitan Museum. I flip through your zine about -
Blog / Admissions
PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall
in terms of geographic outreach but also its structure of different ... Blokhuis, the USA lead at Bebras, sent an email blast to the Computer Science ... teacher and suggest they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).
&A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of admissions. Counselors can RSVP at brownmityale.org. I know that many blog -
Blog / Admissions
That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.
the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture, 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in ... :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW -
Blog / Admissions
Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.
are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI
: The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never -
Blog / Challenges
A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible
no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things. To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all -
Blog / Challenges
Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?
word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of -
Blog / Uncategorized
rating underwear colors in my inbox *insert context here*
At MIT, all of the undergraduate students share a single mailing list ... of 40 dormspams everyday, because there's always something going on at ... started not to resemble colors at all. I've assembled a small---alllow me to -
Blog / Uncategorized
Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app
because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... files. I am downright horrendous at keeping digital spaces clean, so my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM
are destined to be forgotten. To sacrifice who you are at the feet of ... are at the end of this blog and I still want those who don’t know much ... the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop -
Blog / Events
Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!
About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour -
Blog / Admissions
Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.
today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp -
Blog / Admissions
Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.
handful of indy hackers made their run at the Straw Poll, the ballot box was ... of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the
