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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  sleeping. It seemed to me everyone stayed up late into the night and morning ... weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... ’m sleep deprived. It’s awesome to stay up and have those 4 am bonding

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... the noise of the ground below. There is normally not much going on up ... front of a trolley tour bus that was loading up its passengers at the time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I ... to catch up. I’ve never been this sick while at MIT, but during my ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up ... ) but I have drawn inspiration from the interwebz (looking up recipes and ... street. Afterwards, we met up with another cool person, who's in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There ... . Life goal for next semester: bump this average up to 8 hours. Empirical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  pansies sprouting up from the earth and cherry blossoms sprinkling their ... , you’re working so hard, and you’ll end up learning a lot and feeling ... good by just shutting up and listening rather than discounting his

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  the orientation 15. The exercising thing just straight up has not ... -orientation program. So back in June, I signed up for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP ... activity. An MIT alum stood up in front of everyone and started telling us

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  do you do?  Like any good engineer, break it up into smaller, more ... loose wheels have tripped up many a top competitor before ... gravity extremely low.  It works, kind of; it's extremely slow up the slope

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  thing begins blaring and blaring and oh please shut up! Anyway, I manage ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  , and arrive home in California by noontime. I promptly called up some friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because ... drive (so you don't end up like me, 18 and unlicensed). See a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , smoothing the fabric and sucking up skin cells and water and oils from between ... hear about our neighbors, and what their children have been up to. You ... ? Is that legal?” she said into the telephone. Mrs. Concord stood up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  Video. I'm now completely caught up and am awaiting the sixth and final ... - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep ... crop up pretty much everywhere. In my person

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Chinatown. First stop: buy some fish. I walked up to a very nice hairdresser ... , went up to the counter, and spoke with the very nice fishmonger who spoke ... : ? Me: Um...skate? Man: ? Daniel pulled out his iPhone and looked up the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  , any new building project or renovation allots up to $250,000 to ... ;closer.” You’re welcome. Next up is a piece that I’m quite ... when you’re trying to simultaneously listen to the guide, set up

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  . The Rush Chairs commence a speech. We are getting better at cleaning up ... there was about a 2-foot square hole in the wall. By getting a leg up from ... feet long. We finished our calculations, stood up, brushed off our knees

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  kids grow up into real people. Many of my former students who are now ... waist - was right in front of me, looking up and talking earnestly. As I ... your skull like a paper bag now!!" And he looked up at me, grinned, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk ... personally brought up this opportunity made it seem like it was a good thing ... everyone’s energy. People came right up to me and introduced themselves, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to ... right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  elusive nature, up above the world so high, appearing like diamonds in the ... up in McDonald's and thought that potatoes excreted salt and canola oil when you planted them the right way and ended up as dehydrated mashed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  took lots and lots of pictures for your enjoyment. I woke up super early ... "beaver down."   Kelly '09 is giving an excited thumbs up. She ... pretty smart. Then Susan Hockfield got up and made another speech. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009