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  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just ... ’s Hospitality Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and chat with current MIT parents as well as other parents of MIT prefrosh. Also, learn about the MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of ... memorization randomly in between) Me : MIT :: Linguini : cookingFor all you ... , that's enough complaining from me, haha - MIT's still an awesome place. C

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I was already pretty convinced that MIT was the place for me. I was

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

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  awesome that MIT allows you to do whatever you like to your room. I really ... forum on ther MIT site but didn't succed...:( i would like to speak with an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT ... 1936, MIT was not quite as awesome as it is now, so it wasn't very easy ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber music, and I've heard that MIT has a rather strong music department. Could ... awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  absolutely surrounded by prefrosh? Because I'm sitting at the Brown Yale MIT ... Mikey's (the MIT speaker, and recent graduate) information but, as this is ... info sessions. Not just MIT, but Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, etc etc. It

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  . I had my first day of classes in MIT. There's this saying I'm attached to: when you graduate from MIT, you die in real life. Implicit is ... enter MIT. You die when you leave, only to be born, or reborn, wherever

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter ... ,[/annotation] MIT Corporation Chair Diane B. Greene SM ’78 introduced Sally A. Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  things. First: some of you may follow alien/human (and MIT PhD student ... ) the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and the associated project to distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the ... Night Market, an event held by MIT’s Chinese Students’ Club, Asian ... more attention to them. Despite actually going to MIT, I only really got

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  yet, you should! http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N59/pressure/index.htm It also includes an interview with fellow admissions blogger Lydia K! http://tech.mit ... students feel while being in school here at MIT. We ran a survey starting

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... difficult" - by MIT standards] Dear psets, In the past week, you've tried

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two ... fun?   FIRST SEMESTER   (Panoramic view of MIT from ESG ... survived, and I'm pretty sure I passed" about a semester at MIT was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was ... would have found this site: http://bad-ideas.mit.edu/ Bad Ideas Weekend ... at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  people at MIT (undergrads, grad students, professors, etc) prepare short ... something, I strongly recommend doing a program through the MIT Educational ... passionate and pass along their knowledge! While Splash 2011 at MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  I think are worth repeating about MIT. Things that make it such a great place to work and be a student. 1. MIT is very diverse -with no ... probably feel it. 2. And MIT has a non-discrimination policy that is worth

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 ... Srivastava take the lottery for millions, like the MIT Blackjack Team took Las

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in ... the MIT Media Lab arch: Perfect start to CPW, yes? :) This awesomeness ... not MIT was too hard, whether it was frowned upon to not be an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010