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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour ... 'm headed to my last class of a day, an hour-and-a-half lecture ... familiar faces - sorry to keep you in suspense, but you'll definitely hear

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... , and whatever the heck you do with a theremin to raise the potential

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For ... computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night ... with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  have a test over in 5 hours". IAP in fact stands for "It's Awesome ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi ... to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... excited to join the blogs. I want to pay it forward - to be a window into MIT for others, to provide some insight that a high school student

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... news and puts me in a good mood, even though I'm studying physics right ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... enough to give me a small idea. it must feel worse to receive decisions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  ;I sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on MyMIT - what's going on?!" "My teacher said she sent my eval A in, but I don't think you got it. Maybe there is a post office

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , a reference to Stonehenge. ... , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... when classes let out. In mid-November and in late January every year
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  are on this topic, a good thing to keep in mind is that when you do call ... sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  This past week, I went to the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana. On Thursday, we had a reception at ... , I went out to dinner with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... coffee - yep, I think I could make that a daily event, especially in the ... going to turn into (first) a debate about whether or not DD's coffee is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  a global impact, and to superb graduate programs, all recognized as among the finest in the world. With more than a dozen academic fields, the ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  each week and a required summer program at some point prior to graduating ... MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... opened its doors in 1865. Since then, more than 12,000 officers have been
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

   Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack their tubes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008