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  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... descriptions I could. So, in a particular, but not chronological, order, here are ...   BBQ With Tireswinging A historic tradition in Senior Haus, we had

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  is not sticking the glass back in the furnace. &amp ... taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline in the place you would like the glass to break (it becomes the weakest

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of ... am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I ... 's at least one problem, usually in a little low-stakes class called 8

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is ... consider them in any deliberate construction of a sleep schedule. The social ... the world and what I value (versus what I’ve thought I valued in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of ... 's considering doing a UROP in Brain and Cognitive Sciences as an EECS major. But ... night before. 11:00am- Interview with Lincoln Labs in Kendall Square. MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was ... going to graduate with a 5.0 in a double major and double minor with a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way ... track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... associative but not causal. This means, what has happened in the past or on any ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... they were admitted, once the glow of joy dimmed down, there lurked in the ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... dinner with some '08s who are now full-time techies in San Francisco, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... us in the Admissions Office has a particular group of programs that we ... logical choice to talk about what the weekend has in store for you if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  slightly embellished story that is nonetheless true in its essentials. Before ... professional author, and the following was written in about one hour and never ... time in the larger of the two living rooms, in which resided four squishy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton ... , so the rooms in a suite will be 254A-254E, in our case.). And made snowmen in the moat of the chapel. We celebrated my birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... at work (written back in August, but still perhaps true?), but for now ... members of Team Stealth we decided to dress up in miscellaneous combat gear

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Each year of elementary school, in late November, one could walk into ... elementary school. In middle school there was much less Thanksgiving festivity ... schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an open-air market the other day so now there are a lot of avocados in our

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... the problems of reality and fiction in autobiography and biography. K ... rehearse Senegalese drumming techniques and spoken word. Perform in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008