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  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I ... like it here despite the weather. MIT rules!!" -actual '14 testimonial ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them Early Sophomore Standing. The freshmen who choose to accept this are, as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... dad asked me this morning "Do you think the freshmen are scared about ... scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a ... are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full ... .004 = Dynamics and Controls II. In this class we enter the magical Laplace domain

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I ... crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of

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

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office, and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... hall solely because I was really just that bad in the kitchen. Well, I ... . (No, not everything can be considered food by adding the term "flambé

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... sign taped beside the family computer: Sam's Mom always goes that extra mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... . Me in fierce boffer combat with Dan '08 on the Random Hall roofdeck. Summer '05. Me at the Undergraduate Assocation President

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'stin asked, "can you talk about the residence-based advising ... 'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a few dinners like this throughout the year -- freshman advisors get money

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and has trouble understanding what one does on a vacation to the beach.) No ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... . What happens if the tracking system is missing something? First, do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of ... 'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006