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  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  , during CPW,  all the events were about "legos" and "foam swords" and other ... the few prefrosh to go to the more official and "mature" events. I was ... hectic and squeezed into four days. During orientation and rush week, I got

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... , I still overuse semicolons, and I still browse Wikipedia far too often

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... friends from high school and from the Institute, my old coworkers and employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... the right hand side. (She and I had pulled an all-nighter the night ... encounter AND have solid time-management skills. It's all about what's most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly ... into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... lying if I told you MIT was easy. Academically and organizationally, MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip ... significantly more dings and dents, from another great source. MIT! Quoth my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  , Mexico, Naples, Vienna, Belfast, and Lisbon are all names of towns in the ... nearest major cities, Boston and Montreal, are each 260 kilometers away ... hours late Friday night, but that didn’t stop Keith ’08 and Rob ’12 from

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  's Creative Director (whose name begins with “L,” I believe, and ends with “ady ... images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... someone had stolen my pillow and replaced it with a laptop. Except the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  1980, and her Ph.D. in Course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences), also ... Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... hot topic among applying students. I think back and I realize that I've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... may understand the next question and not feel dumb. Unfortunately ... into one week, and again, just like any other place, there isn't a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It ... ", and if someone really presses, even a little bit "New York". Well, as an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  (Title above and song below inspired by lyrics from Avenue Q's "What ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of ... 's pause here and answer the initial question After graduating from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on certain nights, and just generally not getting enough sleep. Also, the ... more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  . Wednesday - school visits on Staten Island and then in East Brunswick, then Chili's (love Chili's!) and then later, the meeting for Central Jersey ... finally On friday I drove back to Massachusetts and slept until Sunday. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  ... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter wonderland as I'm reading applications today, and it makes me feel calm, very ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  ."]MIT Confessions[/annotation] or my behavior when I'm irritable and you've happened ... head up and down to find some table to sit at, I found myself thinking ... here." And I stood there for a minute, laughing to myself a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention, by Guy Deutscher, and it was awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end ... trip, for three days last summer, and for a week during spring break as ... ="101765" image3="101764" image4="101763" /] I took my last final in the Spring and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024