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  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  !). Your host will know how much time to allot for you to check in and meet ... . How often they want to check in with you, if at all. You’ll probably ... especially helpful at the end of the weekend. How to get into their room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  to see how the totals turn out. 13. Get ready for your freaking sweet ... worsened my mood. I had gotten in to MIT. Now, I can't help but feel that ... offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk ... to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an ... and we'll get back to you.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept ... you how I love this place, about its gentle paradise, all in prose that takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... down on education in America today - had some very kind words to say

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... items for me to do in the future. this has helped me go to more ... productive in general. using gcal is processual. events always get shuffled

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... the opportunity to ask any questions about the club or MIT life in ... -specific events! A lot of clubs will hold CPW events for you to get to know the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in ... ), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  I graduate and don't get to be a rockstar blogger anymore. Ack!) So ... wanted to through that in there to prove that MIT students do in fact date ... that and I had to share. Tensor! Ha! Get it? Don't worry if you don't, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  require a deposit to secure your spot. If you get into MIT later in May, and ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the ... personal decision - the answer to question #2 may help you to decide. 2) How

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... room Figuring out how to get my computer to print to our dorm’s printer ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  bathrooms in the meche department. cross-registrant themed 1. bus to Harvard ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011