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  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we ... Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow ... "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  happy that she came up with a way to make the wheel spin which we used in ... be the first one to make a mistake. Fortunately the bus arrived before ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp ... makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull ... where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  think make good matches to the undergraduate culture of MIT - academic ... the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of ... updated, and I think it's a good overview. I'm hoping, however, that current

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... ="59767" image7="59769" /] A few days later, I took my scooter and headed to Infinite 0. The basement is a really fun place to scooter around because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  way to work that day. Now does the title make a little more sense? ... much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these ... : Basically, each clue refers to either a book or television series somehow

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  -in, so I had to go to regular check-in and there was a really long line ... close to MIT right now, which might make that last comment less random. I went for a bike ride and it's so beautiful outside that it inspired me to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting ... readings, and a reflection on the semester. Two classes down, two to go. Now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  future? What is going to make me happy? Frustratingly, a shocking ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... reported back to Raphael, and we continued on our way, keeping a wary eye out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But this generally doesn't make a difference, because procrastination doesn ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay ... not a writing test. There are no real requirements, other than to use ... -based. ------------------------------------- Zoogies wrote: "I'm going to cite a comment that either you or someone else

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  and Computer Science (6-2), and I wanted to write a blog about MIT ... time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox ... process, but more importantly, it’s taught me what it takes to work on a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply ... willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  a telling laugh my first introduction to psets, and realized that I ... I had a WEEK to do, only had 5 problems. This was going to be a piece ... they have way more time to finish a task then they need does, and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 ... to school with for four years. I also had a lot of questions about MIT ... around the campus. The fact that you're a prefrosh is like an open door to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is ... , the Admissions Officers had a "mail opening party." In reality, it wasn't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career ... I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call ... file. There is no need to give us a heads ... official marksheet....as this is kind of considered to be a big achievement

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... sounds, I was always used to being close to the top of my class. After a while, I intentionally strived to maintain that not because I felt a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024