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  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design/Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear that…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I’ve ever seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  Remember, kids, consent is sexy–so ask for permission before touching somebody else’s airplane. This is important when you have 80 teams and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar.…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  We’re in a hotel room and we’re watching Men In Black (preceded by Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the raucous men out in the parking…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I moved before the memory…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those three days felt…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW last year, and it is, once again, that time of year! This year I’d like…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  When the CPW schedule came out  when I was a prefrosh 50000 years ago, I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out a full…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be as excited about the start of Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Yet, after all this time, I…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  Last year, the admitted students of the Class of 2017 got invitations to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists, other majors have drastically different course structures. One thing most of them have in common though are the scale and…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should have received an email from us last Friday about completing the Wait List Form. Whether you…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in what seems like…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart-attack-worthy lies over the next couple…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that’s what they say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME) program, I was pretty excited about…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off into the darkness. Three thousand…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  I’ll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during college. Not even for a bit! (I’m starting to think I’m always more homesick than I realized…) It’s a…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 — Introduction to Media Studies, taught by Ian Condry. He’s a cultural anthropologist; his latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

    Juliet Capulet, portrayed by Chelsea R. ‘15 and photographed by Emily K.-L. ‘16. About a week ago I sat down with one my best friends Chelsea R. ‘15 to…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014