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  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  ARE YOU PUMPED FOR CPW? Who wouldn't be excited about 72 solid hours ... in touch with many of them even if you don't end up enrolling here ... . At least I wasn't dropping his class. Know this: average MIT frat

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... think that's what he convinced himself. It wasn't entirely clear. I'll be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  ’s see – 3 F’s and 2 C’s? What!!! Second-semester can’t be like this! Okay ... obvious culprit, but I can't help but mention some other preoccupations that ... just a little bit; still can't get over how exotic edamame sounds. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  the letter from Ms. Chu? And my transcript? Weren't they all sent before ... last question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven't ... doesn't stop there... Next, the documents are put into alphabetical order

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  don't forward my MIT email to Gmail, and I've already taken myself off ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago ... getting a free T-shirt shoved into my arms. I felt like Napoleon, doing his

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  . I wasn't expecting that to happen...but through your comments, your ... joy; when others of them weren't, their sorrow was mine, too. And for ... meet every one of you who couldn't be admitted in person and tell you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  you weren't already. Nonetheless, for those who don't know, here's a ... , basically, like The Game. You don't want to think about it...but you do. I ... . That's why they can't predict the date in advance. I know it may seem

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... New Year (the trip normally takes 3 hours). I didn't know what SATs were (honest! - I didn't find out about SATs until the summer of freshman year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  .” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one ... can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you probably won’t even see at CPW. Ladies and gentleman, I’m warning you, this

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  blog post. This was what MIT was all about. Wait, Derrick you can't mean ... getting at. I may have been overworked and tired, but I wasn't alone. There were people with me, just as tired and overworked, who wouldn't let me

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fighting a war we couldn't win. The Seniors watched with satisfaction. But ... later I discover it in a box under my bed. I don't remember putting it ... rediscovered. Here is the one I'm thinking of: Please, please, please, don't

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on ... says sleep isn't on your list of things you did over CPW either. Am I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  Admissions Decisions 1. Dream about getting into colleges that don't exist ... much fun as it is being pompous and loathed by everybody, just don't do it. Nobody likes that guy. You don't want to be that guy, do you?) 4

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you ... I say, "Well, even if you don't like all the architecture at MIT, at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  Keri Russell stars. It's something with those ladies from the WB, isn't ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn't ... thing I didn't get a super burrito, since after paying for the regular

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First ... -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  pick me up at the airport. The message said, "I don't know if you know this, but your flight has been cancelled." I didn't want to believe it ... book Are You My Mother. There were no more flights, but I didn't give up

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  mosquitoes on land, but they didn't bother us when we were in the water. For obvious reasons, such not wanting to get in trouble for indecency, I didn't ... 'm starting to get the hang of this photography thing. Life isn't nearly as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  , first of all, the T only runs until about 12:30, so without any way of ... against us so my miniskirt didn't flare up too much in the front, though everything below my waist was just a little bit nippy. But actually, I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  , mit_hopefulgirl, is MIT doesn't send these "likely letters." One reason why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process ... summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005