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  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on ... interesting bunch by going to your favorite AIM client and joining the chatroom ... registration, of course, was to find the admissions office. I quickly scanned the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  middle bin on the side nearest to him and in the nearest/farthest bins on ... is picked and you have 1 minute to calibrate your robot. The robot then ... your robot can capture the skunk and then take it back to your opponent

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact ... short project from beginning to end on whatever we found interesting ... on three separate GPUs because I'm impatient[/caption] I had AF set to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  As a brand new bright-eyed freshman here, you’ll quickly discover that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... you pinkie-swore to donate the money that you would have spent on drinks

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think about. I'm a little rusty on my art history, but I was very excited to see the Kandinsky. I was less excited to see red squares on white canvas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my ... I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new ... consultant (Did you know that your name tag should always go on the right? Do

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  Levels), we need to rely largely on predicted grades. Your school has ... it be mailed to you guys?" Congratulations on your honor. You should be ... expect the admissions decisions to be emailed or posted on the website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  'm back in Boston briefly before heading to New Jersey and New York on ... wish we could ask you. It supplies depth to your application, and often serves to amplify the strongest parts of your file. I remember several of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... don’t want to. Picking up the hint, they quickly schedule a financial ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street to do a book signing in December ... Ina doesn't want to be cooking while the party's going on, so she gives you helpful time-saving tips on how to prepare everything for the party

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  incentive to bobble around and meet new people, especially if you’re still ... schoolers (called Blueprint, and if you’re a high-schooler you’re eligible to ... -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  . "Hi Keri, In honor of your new US citizenship, I think you should write ... and skip to the depressing numbers. Number of review questions on motor ... in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  your financial aid application, please don't delay! (more instructions on appling for financial aid) As you may have read on our website, we plan to ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... rose to, “If you have fears about your ability to handle the workload ... community, primarily freshmen, to know them. Always on the lookout for free

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  RBA program on their website. And as always, if you want to hear more ... ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living ... NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS DURING YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. I'm sorry, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  to give hints on what your word is. The hints should be subtle enough ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push ... Lodge, a training program for first-years on how to use various tools. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  'd appreciate a quick line explaining what you're up to this summer! Thanks a lot ... want to (a) be famous, (b) brag about your awesome summer, (c) help show ... to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008