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  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I went there with this “what the heck, they’re paying for it so

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the ... spring out of a bush and detain me for stealing a bike lock). Then I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  Ina Garten's recipe for apple butternut squash soup. Let me tell you ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life ... there, but I can post some stereotypically MIT photos: In order for me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I ... study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  business is not an option for most people, though it is a convenient way to ... job and being out of the loop for a few years can really reduce your ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  approach to introductory chemistry for those who aren't planning to go into a ... Sadoway comes highly regarded for his engaging lecture style. This course ... Physics is used extensively and allows for assignments to be due at various

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... someone who actually knows you. for the same reasons, I’m also more cautious ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... week, except for weeks when there's an exam, so there's around ten in all ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking ... famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... definitely surpassed Switzerland for me as the most beautiful place on Earth

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  . For those of you in transition years, graduating high school and ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... previews for movies that are coming out soon. Two of these movies probably ... " the wonderdog has extreme potential, see for yourself: 2) It REALLY

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... 'm not dead yet :) It's definitely possible for a vegan to survive! It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  personalities of the students. thanks for any help anyone can give. estelphoenix ... step. For many students, CPW is the first time they experienced campus ... expected. I have a lot of options for college (harvard, brown, stanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  menu curated for each event"] MIT MINCE [/annotation]. As a big Studio ... building"] Picower Center for Learning and Memory [/annotation]. [caption id ... food and sharing our love for Ghibli films! Now, onto the part that you

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... for everything—Musical Theatre Guild, lean0nme, Splash, Think, Quiz Bowl

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... ‘ur mom’ jokes, painting an apt metaphor for the psyche of the average ... everybody in the room except for her"]she set alarms every other minute

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... without any inhibition for three days straight. i've been coping with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021