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  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... 25% to the undergraduate population for the weekend they're here. The MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... about all of this? Well, winter's finally come to Cambridge, along with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office ... fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... with his card. Le sigh. I suppose it happens even to the best of us. But

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... forward to classes starting. Not to mention had to go to classes when they ... /1/08.  Please be advised that you need to drop the subject from your schedule. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on ... lot of useful information and gained insight as to how we can improve

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be ... directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... more enough to convince me that MIT really was different. Given that our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team ... it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging ... and I found myself apologizing every few seconds and more to myself than

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  we do not have enough information. While it is important to file your Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials received after that date are accepted and will catch up to your file. Around

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... the textbook more than just about any other textbook I've had to use, but I like the material. It's relevant to what I want to do. 6

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world ... innovative ways to enhance our strong, entirely need-based financial aid ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie & ... touring to libraries and charity events and finally decided she was exhausted with the "glam" life and retired to the mountains of South Carolina

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... great opportunity to get to know a few dozen classmates well, before ... freshman to Montana, Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... to D√Љsseldorf this weekend, I forget why, but the thing that we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  So me and my 133t h4x0r roommate Yuan decided to take over Bryan ... of the Bands is an event held every CPW where ten local bands come to MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to ... . Pictures to come soon! The end of IAP also means...the 14th annual Charm School! The very first session I went to was "How to tell someone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... with three people. I volunteered to organize and compile it by 3 PM today ... my laptop, taking it from wireless connection to wireless connection on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005