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Blog / Admissions
CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!
claim where I met my first MIT friend, Shubhi. Although I never saw her again during CPW, there's no one like your first MIT prefrosh friend ... , while waiting for my MIT decision and even after it, the chatroom provided -
Blog / Events
Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works
discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... fun it was to logic all of this out with my friend; if you ever find ... , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed -
Blog / IAP
Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration
finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my ... greatest dining experience of my life. We were walking around Georgetown ... took my Barnes and Noble bag and searched through, asking, disappointedly -
Blog / Athletics
[Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC
Hi all! My name is Catherine J. ‘22. I’m studying Computer Science ... amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... , Korean, or Swahili. I think this is one of my favorite things about ROTC -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway
. The first set of dresses already blew my mind: (Wired - "Our dress is ... Haase, Stefania Druga, and Alexandra Rieger) (Bain of my Existence ... My Existence presents a visual representation of the role of finance -
Blog / Events
Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT
out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... was way too much to handle, especially because my course load was so ... sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)
friends, and FIRST was hugely influential in my personal and academic ... , because of my previous experience with both programming and mechanical engineering. They warned me that maslab would consume all of my time over IAP -
Blog / Academics & Research
Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…
penurious radiators, I can't help but rhapsodize my midsummer memories of ... roofdeck . . . anyway, I digress. **Way to steal my polysyllabic descriptors ... -gasmically grateful that I gave you one of my granola bars from Trader Joe's? Anyway, I -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Worlds within worlds
to help out your friends" are pretty universal, for instance), but ... undergrad, your social culture, in my observation, depends largely on two ... typical date between students at my high school or middle school was like, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.
setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... my evening learning about No Child Left Behind (for a public policy ... chatting with my next-door neighbor (a senior) about his second-round job -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?
knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure ... especially. On that note, I thought I'd share my thoughts about food here from ... it, there are 3 distinct challenges to my eating habits: 1) Figuring -
Blog / Events
An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.
. Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go ... sleeping in high school because I was always seeing the tetris pieces in my ... you couldn’t make up.” Go watch it on Apple TV after this blog! It’s my -
Blog / Admissions
Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview
my own interview like it was yesterday. I’ve been an EC for six years ... , and I don’t hesitate to include that in my interview report. Remember ... ’t rely on friends or classmates to tell you what their interview was like -
Blog / Classes
plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762
’ve never really written poetry beyond the flowery text in my zine comics, so ... like my summer internship “i love going to Trader Joes to pick up chicks,” my coworker coos, recounting his afterwork escapades between sips of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp
hard to let me have. At the same time, and talking to my other friends in ... through my open window almost every evening. [caption id="attachment_69249" align="aligncenter" width="384"] (blurry) view from my window - you can -
Blog / Uncategorized
an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy
familiar voice. one of my friends is the [annotation note="though now i haven ... my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go -
Blog / Academics & Research
It Ends My last last day of school
regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... my last penultimate day did not end until 4:05 am, courtesy of some -
Blog / Academics & Research
An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself
progress. My team is called Team Friendly Panthers (we’re very friendly, why ... In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and lots and lots of talking. Most of my classes this semester devote a -
Blog / How to Human
Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet
. There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends ... shorts are your friends. And wait till you discover the wonders of free t ... good for splitting bills with friends and buying cannolis at the North