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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other ... food and free stuff were abound. Here's Paul representing the ... By Pamela Ban ('12?) I had eagerly awaited CPW, and it was heaven

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  Slowly 4.0.. And if Live Free or Die Hard isn't the best possibletitle for ... sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... flatbread, and it comes topped with three tons of cabbage and tomatoes and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  enjoy it. It's an easy and fun way to make some money on the side of my ... more intensive and test-prep-oriented. 12 - 1 I had a meeting with my ... presented my findings to her and worked with her to figure out the next steps

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  valleys and mountaintops alike with a sharp, consuming pink and rivers grow heavy and silver with fish. The air is warmer, though not warm, and on ... attention. My summer at home, before and after Alaska, was mellow. Restful

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  enjoying their purchases after a "free money" run to La Verde's campus ... journal about daily experiences. Much angst about my workplace and college ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  that term and allowing you to take it again with no penalty. Why was I ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  . Unfortunately, I make student money and am not in a position to just order up a ... . Except, surprise, I was spending all my available free time, energy, and ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  Picture this, it is the summer time, and I am finally free from the ... scheduling eating and cooking within my busy schedule, and there are no more ... , for living in a suite with friends next semester, and adding new

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  money from a Brazilian orphanage and also kicked puppies and/or small ... holiday cheer, goodwill toward men, and all that; I'm referring to rooms filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint ... Medical shares your pain (or your sense of humor): And I guess the editors ... .) And here, too, though I honestly forgot what this was for: This sign

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  something like that and get individual feedback from a real live composer was ... around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in ... that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move ... 's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving felt so strange. The pandemic had somehow compressed and expanded time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  shop is no bigger than two dorm doubles (maybe a generous triple) and is ... by Tananya Prankprakma and Sophia Wang   This post is a love letter to food written jointly by me (Sophia) and Tananya.    I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  , faculty, and staff can go hang out and create beautiful glassware and ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning ... in the MIT Glass Lab this week. Since space is so tight and so tightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  : i crunched the numbers and i saved enough money. i was ready to run ... ran out of money? what if your parents found out where we lived, and ... time in what felt like forever, i felt happy, and i felt free. dan: heck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  alone the X-ray cost. These were all free for students and covered by my ... for the pain, and I'll be able to sleep at night pain-free. After the ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  finals are done and not during the actual term, but that's just the way it ... Julie Gerberding and Compton lecturer Tom Brokaw, for example. We've also ... , written by MIT Professor Robert Tavernor), Hayden Christensen, and even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it ... you have classes and psets and labs and tests again” was a rough ... feels like a never-ending stream of due dates and internal (sometimes

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  snapshot (and taste! read: FREE FOOD) of the culture at MIT, in all its ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... 't affect the camera at all - it still works perfectly, and no pictures were

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010