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• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  of life that you're less likely to see during CPW. For example, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  of the MIT Parent Connectors. Panels & Sessions Residential Life ... Residential Life, will lead a discussion covering life in residences

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the things they pushed aside for psets before.…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... over with, soak up the life lessons, and hope for a brighter future. At ... final word: In the inexorable yet mysterious course of a human life, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  make a good blog entry.” Life at MIT does not make sense a lot of times

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets. QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets

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

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  Okay guys, here’s the deal…Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven’t actually dressed up as anything in the past…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  , with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  One all-too-common misunderstanding I’ve encountered about MIT is that “no one” at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in the humanities or the fine arts. Well, I don’t know about…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records,…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  you've pre-written your life story or are like me and have very little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It’s time for one of those “It’s late and I’m up, I should throw crap on the internet so I feel accomplished” moments. Are you ready? Can you handle it?…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  !). So let's debunk the myth now...there IS a social life at MIT out there

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  leadership in all aspects of life - be it social, academic, technological - and

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  I’ve recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions – I know, I know, three plays AND five elections and/or speakers, how does she do it? Last week I…

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and ... make a life's goal in which I attend a rally for each presidential

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  choose to live a full life outside of academics, albeit one filled with too ... just have no patience. College is the one time in your life where you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  life. (Who can argue with that?) And whenever I see those first flakes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn’t “real snow” – it melted all before noon!) I was walking…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007