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• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  chapter of the python natural language processing textbook. then i hung out ... 'm doing good work that i can be proud of, and like i'm contributing a ... 's reflection on John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration of the Independence of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most jam-packed days you'll have until you come for Orientation of course ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  for a National Institutes of Health study on minority students majoring ... An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... meaning of the word enough, could also mean something expensive, valuable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... of time on it though." "Personal answer is definitely 11.011 or 6 ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  Institute of Taxidermy, in dormspam-the-game"]MIT.[/annotation] You live in a ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was straightforward, but winning them was not. The top-ranked players of each game were

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been ... Globe (free registration required) which gives a good overview of the ... change for the Class of 2010 this summer (perhaps July?). The paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  ? As Purple Team explained, a 3.5 degrees celsius rise in temperature of ... could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... children. Elika, an artistic, aesthetic, foldable coffee table made of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  as excited about the start of Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Yet, after ... of our admitted students and those parents who are on campus as well ... attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don ... bunch of APs. Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't take them, just that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... imagine that you're walking toward that venue, with the intention of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

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