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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  helpful at discovering MIT to me: Fairs. These are great for seeing what ... Note: this post has been updated from the 2016 CPW mini-guide for the ... !!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with CPW reminders and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... project seem super cool, but it was also at a great time for us! We wanted ... participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  also had the idea for a plunger that would scream at you while you used ... . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13 ... with CMS/Civic classmate Rodrigo, who now runs product at Neighborly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  've missed you! After CPW, I was sick for nearly two weeks, and I got better just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... the meetings, and the schedule for upcoming meetings in California, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  'll have a small reception for any students visiting MIT. The reception will be tomorrow (Friday) at from 5-7pm in Stata Center room 32-155. I know that there will be many students around tomorrow for several reasons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  get released. For some reason, many people at MIT (including a few of my ... Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for ... – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn ... identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore ... one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of weeks at MIT have been Orientation for the incoming students -- they have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  yearbook is something every member at Technique, for whatever unexplainable ... , look for us at CPW... (If you made it this far, thank you for reading ... you can buy it at our booth in the Student Center in early May for $65.

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  own feel for how you will do at MIT.  Sure, it's nice to maybe meet up ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of ... for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting ... 'M GOING TO MAKE MUGS!! I was having my favorite caramel hot cider at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs called "Hidden Treasures at MIT"(HT@MIT) that take some of the hidden

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  design a control system for a YF03 robot at Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at ... plant for the western U.S.; this project led to a future publication at

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  (s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to answer: my eyes automatically scan the page for “Mexican-American”. Boom. I mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which begins at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. This would be

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special moment for me, because this time last year Anthony was simply one of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT ... ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... thinking about Mystery Hunt. The 2006 MIT Mystery Hunt will begin at 12:17 pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005