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  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is simply a formality. Oh, and sleeping is overrated. Here's just a quick ... over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  its stainless-steel exterior sandblasted because the glare is too great ... Street from Stata, the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences building is ... is moving quickly! All of this is good news for those of you excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and ... dancing. He showed clips from the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, of ... and more, it seems, and that self is actively engaged in black social

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  .253.4791. ------------------------------------- Steven wrote: "Is there any way for deferred students to send supplementary essays online?" You can email them to admissions@mit.edu. Remember to ... /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... really great during your first few months at MIT; I really enjoyed building

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  Google Calendar or other similar online planning apps/websites, but we just ... agendas is because I like to very excessively cross out tasks as soon as ... this is mainly because assignments are pretty repetitive and after I get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  MIT. An exciting day results, and everything is going swell until later ... class (for all those who have forgotten, an essay is the English version ... and silver and black MIT lanyard; on it are the words MIT Engineers, a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  . Another non-trivial difference between academics at Cambridge and MIT is the way exams and grades work. MIT runs under a continuous assessment school ... Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but ... the parts needed for the repair is no longer being sold. So instead they ... new Lenovo Yoga 2 which is twice as good as my old laptop and only cost

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  When I went online to start typing up this post, I noticed an ... it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... being insanely busy, but this is just ridiculous. Let's try this again

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... ="everything except writing Haikyuu! fanfiction, that is"]high school hobbies ... fulfilled—at MIT, i only needed dance, but now just that isn't enough. i need

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  magnitude and speed at which their magnitude is clear. And in true MIT ... ever shows up on reuse... This is something MIT specific, but there's a ... Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  , exercising is honestly not nearly as high up as it probably should be (read: is ... miles. It is bordered left and right with lush green that is home to at least (we are convinced) 40 wild cats!! Beyond the right tree border is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  RAM, which is neat too. It’s also way lighter and feels nicer to carry ... 're not a tech person, right?" Arch, because the AUR is apparently the ... configuration is "the correct way to do things". After long self-reflection, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... my first year at MIT thinking that [annotation note ... cannot describe. 6. Modular furniture Each piece of Simmons furniture is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  could find on the Internet. The (not quite) final design is above--the current working design is a bit messy at the moment. The camera will be made ... IAP, I walked into the MIT Hobby Shop, design in hand, and absolutely no

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  very cold it is outside. Two shirts and a hoodie were overkill every ... needles down my throat. The path I run is full of stoplights, conveniently ... come. Everything is just a few days away. Until then, here are some of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi ... the Double Fifth Holiday. The fifth month is considered unlucky, so it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  of MIT if the rest of your application is stellar ... , a 2100 is definitely not going to keep you out of MIT if the rest of ... asking is if MIT will still seriously consider the rest of an application

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006