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  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #1: If you’re paying for your food, you’re doing something wrong. Campus Preview Weekend is full…

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The MIT school fight song, “The Engineers’ Drinking Song” was originally derived from the song “A Son of a Gambolier” by my childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay,…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  Susan commented on the blog, “Because I live far away from MIT, I cannot afford the costs of the travel […] Since I cannot make it, what should I do…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this time, I’ve got plenty of volunteers from a wide array of backgrounds, so I’m going to stop…

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put up “no later than this Friday.” Two and a half Fridays later (or something like that),…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here’s your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my experience at…

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of “Making the Switch,” Melissa ’11 asked: “Oh, and in later chapters, please include the being alone without family/friends aspect and making new friends =)” Moving…

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Congratulations! You have finally been accepted to college! 4(+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off.…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  I’m kind of confused – if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble in the appropriate bubble? There is no deposit required?” No deposit required! Just be sure…

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  So Matt got a question a few days ago requesting that we write about transition. And in one sentence, I’ve completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  Tonight, I’ll post the first of the reports back from this week’s Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the comments, please leave more of your…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  Hello, I’m a PC. Hello, I’m a Mac. If you haven’t seen one of these commercials, I really don’t know what to tell you except turn on the TV. But…

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that certain browsers (i.e. Firefox) may not play nicely with CPW registration, which is likely why some of you…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so surprised…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  Sorry for the massive blog entry – this should have probably been split into two or three, but I didn’t want to dominate the homepage. :-) ——————————————————- Campus Preview Weekend…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend two months working for one of the most exciting companies on the planet – Ferrari – in…

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and I’m finding myself searching…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007