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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in ... Logarhythms' rendition of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me," duly interrupted

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

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

  

  we do throughout the year into one gigantic weekend extravaganza with ... 's ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, rock band, dance parties, and more food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  This past Wednesday found me with blistered palms, swollen shoulders ... you can imagine, an EMT that can't handle a stretcher with someone on it ... I could come in and tinker with the stretchers a little bit. And thus

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  , usually on couches carved out in the snowdrifts, with the champagne freezing ... about all of this? Well, winter's finally come to Cambridge, along with the rest of the East Coast, with the Blizzard of 2009. This snowstorm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... mean: get more sleep, be more productive, win at life. Huzzah! With this ... semester). Now I'm basically best friends with partial derivatives. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  moon landing, folks around here are pretty excited. Start with the short ... work is rocket science," they started the interview with the question ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I’d be living with Kosher keeping people, much less on a floor with ... have anything to do with Thanksgiving? Well, okay, a few things you ... more caution with what spoon you’re eating your cereal with in the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  delicious dim sum with friends in Chinatown. After gorging ourselves on ... in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of Darkness and a few others) before splitting with the group and heading back

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend ... -based article short but sweet. Enough with the excuses, onto the introduction! My ... , which I absolutely loved. I met up with my host, Brad ’08, and from the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... that up with another recitation, this time for 18.03 (differential

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  emotional bias with a scientific eye, and to daily question and reaffirm our ... with him (and they have a perfect right to do so) but rather than dismissing his words with slurs and dogmatic name-calling, let him challenge

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  years of female college juniors with leadership, community involvement ... out with no expectation of winning, so you can imagine my shock when I ... exactly she meant by “finalist” (= one of the top 10). Phone interviews with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  largest department at MIT, with roughly 130 faculty members, 900 graduate students (over 100 of whom work with the faculty as teaching assistants each ... deal with the faculty and fellow students a few at a time, in your

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  Japanese culture, with an emphasis on international relations between Japan ... , this course provides students with a broad overview of Japanese history, literature, religion, art, politics, and economics, with a special focus on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  year ended with a fizzle. I must admit, I love rolling out of bed on the Saturday morning before exam week, grabbing my backpack filled with textbooks ... time hanging out with friends from high school and my family. I visited

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  15 with a minor in 14 [in layman's terms: a double major in Mathematics ... Random Variables with Prof. Richard Dudley. It was a class in probability ... food. Association of Taiwanese Students does a great job with getting the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  with the introduction of Ray, a 60 year-old logician who made a fortune ... difference. Basically, Ray showers Mirabelle with expensive meals, gifts, and trips because he likes sleeping with her while she thinks the relationship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  I've had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks ... sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks ... forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  played our triumphant eight measures with tremendous gusto but no ... low, low price of admission. Well, that sits well with me, if not ... --stay with me here--AAA, ATS, and CSC, and also featuring KSA, JAM, VSA, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... are equipped with muscles that they need to walk, all they need is a ... mechanical robot with a controller that uses a learning program, the robot can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005