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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I’d like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation and service, topics that obviously resonate here at MIT. You only have to look at the work…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  Howdy fellow prefrosh, future MIT applicants, and MIT students!! I’m Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever, our very own blogger Hamsika :)…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  QUOTE: (talking about her daughter when she lived in McCormick as a Housemaster) “As you know, young children play these imaginative formative games when they are growing up, like playing…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got here I…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  We salute you. They say sometimes about MIT that of sleeping, studying, and socializing, you’re forced to choose two. Well, they’re almost right… Some weeks you only get to choose…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  from Ann ’14! When I first found out about “Campus Preview Weekend,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events that had been available for my…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  from Ramya ’14! You might think that CPW stands for Campus Preview Weekend, but you’re wrong. CPW really means “4 days of Pure aWesomeness.” (The C didn’t want to join…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  QUOTE: “Coming from Stanford [before MIT’s CPW], I actually bought a Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I now regret that I even…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  It feels a little strange seeing CPW from a host’s perspective this year instead a prefrosh’s: there’s less of the aimless wandering, the obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you’re not here yet, hurry up and get here, and if you are, you shouldn’t waste too much time reading our silly blogs —…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG…CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren’t you super excited?!?!? I’ve spent the past several weeks with many of my colleagues, working long days and nights to match up all 1,100+ of…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts tomorrow and it’s all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff we do throughout the year…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  At Friday’s Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge Auditorium), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight their talks, I’ll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be “all about CPW, all the time” and to a large extent our office is that way too. We’re getting ready…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 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…

  

  At this Friday’s Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge Auditorium), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight their talks, I’ll feature a mini-interview with each of them.…

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

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you’ll soon discover that “great,” “fun,” and “amazing” will become understatements. Hopefully the weather would…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day to drop off lights, glowsticks, and popcorn machines, the grass is growing, and the sun is shining.…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the English language. I’d point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of them leaves…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  Other than spending a few hours last night br√ºtally annihilating people in G√∂d √∂f W√§r III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have spent most of the last week…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010