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

  

  For the record, during my CPW, it rained for a little and despite that, I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... sophomore year, she developed a strong interest in international development ... gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... 've known you for like a year and we've never actually met." "I know, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  , I have a confession to make to my fellow VMars fans... ...Ready? I think I have a fictional character crush on Piz. I can’t help it, he ... hear from Marilee only a few times a year, usually around crucial dates

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more ... visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits 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 ... matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we ... many FSILGs as strike your fancy. Find a community! There's definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  - but there are still a lot of you and only a few of us. Can my parents ... I haven't gotten a tube yet, should I assume that I have been rejected ... . Committee starts in February. If I was missing a teacher rec would I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in the Z-Center (no, really) and I'm so disheartened by this that a ... environs. I'm fine, Sam's Mom. But I'm obviously not a natural runner, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  't care how much you like your temp assignment. I'm sure Mollie, who's a ... versions of a lot from new frosh, is "I love my temp living group and am ... are interested in FSILGs don't have a hard time understanding why they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the ... . (I liked her so much that I took her class 21A.348: Photography and Truth the next semester.) Anyway, our 21A.453 class had only 3 students in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate ... .") Their wedding took place in Bellevue last Saturday, and was a bittersweet ... : Nuclear Engineering) -- the original person who put a laptop on his door, no

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  film is primarily a love story, but there are major themes of justice and ... about a student's essay I had read the day before about the India ... the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... that a) applicants simply don’t understand what information we are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... solar geeks are on this list I thought I should share… it’s a [Kp9] night tonight, and if my tracker is accurate, we should have a chance of seeing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... that was stopping me was a 750 word essay on my greatest challenges that ... Mr. Hometown, and my coworkers. I miss taking home a large pizza

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how finals period is the time of semester when all the a capella groups give

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  today was sunnier. And a tree's now gone, apparently. Look! Look at ... would lead down a slippery slope. Now look at all these people sitting ... about these two people eating lunch on Hockfield Court? Are they having a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for ... ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your ... and a bunch of youtubers made up these storylines that they act out

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time ... problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... something along the lines of "I think you're asking this to get a gauge of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021