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  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it ... point in my senior year; I believed I was torn between Olin and MIT, but ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  living group and club we've got. It's an exciting time, and now... now I ... surprise that I plan on spending most of rush hanging out at Random, with a ... questions about MIT, about life here, about how to survive day-to-day, about

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  doubt the power of the weather machine, but I assure you it's real! How ... freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. We know you ... decision, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on how ... wish you all the very best at whatever college you choose. Last week I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... . (including blogging, questions omnibus, replying to comments, et al.). I apologize! Until early action decisions are finalized, selection is job one.I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  Korea would defeat Mexico in the World Cup Challenge final. Overall this ... the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most freshman applications this past year in bold. Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... manage the situation? (200-250 words) People often ask me, "How do I stand ... want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  shirt. If you see me, say hi, because I would like to talk about Homestuck ... : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I ... getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I ... than if I had locked myself in my room trying to get good grades that are

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure ... say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... 't know if MIT has a wind tunnel, but if they do, I want to put bikes in ... . I'll have my first bike in the Tour de France this year." Read more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  wonderful, hole-in-the-wall Tunisian restaurant. Tell Chef Alia I said hello ... : One of many great places in Chinatown. I love their soup dumplings. 34 ... A few weeks back, I ran into my friend Andre '08 on the T (that is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I ... ; Here's the writeup I turned in (click the arrows to scroll through the ... cons of the symbol, and improve on it throughout 3 iterations. I chose

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  her UROP in such attire, her boss would probably, no, definitely, laugh ... glasses, and gloves. If Anna Teytelman, a sophomore in Management Science ... Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL) Department

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... some of my incredibly dedicated colleagues in blogging, but I have an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  excited, in fact, that I came home after class last Friday to this lovely ... perfectly: I was booked to be in my Science, Technology, and Society (STS ... the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks ... MIT in comMITment, the freshmen are not. Personally, I applied to MIT ... free food than other majors. I just had a great sandwich. In full

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... technologies from 18 households without electricity in Kien Svay, developing and

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012