<p>So who's attending?? I wish my spring break coincided with this so i could stay longer :/</p>
<p>I strongly encourage you to miss school for it. It’s worth it.</p>
<p>I hope to attend! I may have to miss Monday’s school. Oh well.</p>
<p>It’s <em>Campus</em> Preview Weekend. :D</p>
<p>I strongly encourage anyone who can attend, to do so. Even if you have to miss a couple of days of school for it. 
Seriously, you’re making a decision about where you’re going to spend four years of your life and receive your higher education, during a time of year when high school seniors are expected to do so. It’s okay to miss a little bit of school.</p>
<p>I’ll be going :)</p>
<p>I wish I could miss more school for this =).</p>
<p>this might seem like an odd question, but I have a friend who has A’s and B’s and has still applied to MIT. He had amazing essays, and a great interview.
Does he have a chance?
I’m trying to be supportive, you see.</p>
<p>Is this for EA students only, or will regular action students hear in time to go to it?</p>
<p>CPW is for all admitted students. It is held in early April, and RD decisions will come out in mid-March.</p>
<p>I am very tempted to go, pending admission obviously, but I don’t think I can make it due to baseball and robotics. I was able to visit the campus last year, albeit during summer.</p>
<p>CPW is awesome, seriously, punt everything else to go.</p>
<p>Even prom.</p>
<p>What time should I arrive? It says registration is from 8am to 12am, which is just really vague. When will most other people be arriving?</p>
<p>It is really important to go. Especially to check out which doom you like. Don’t believe that you can switch doom when you start the school in the fall. My son did not attend CPW. And chose doom randomly. Then he found out all his fridents stay in Random house. He tried to change it but there is no space. Not until the spring of sophomore year, he gets chance to move in.</p>
<p>My flight is arriving Logan around 9. how far is MIT from Logan?</p>
<p>About 30-45 minutes by public transportation, and a little less than that by cab.</p>
<p>For public transportation, you’ll want to follow the signs at the airport for ground transportation, then get on the big silver caterpillar buses that go to each terminal. They say “SL1 - Airport” on the top and cost 1.70 to ride. (There are machines that sell fare cards in each terminal.) The bus will take you to South Station, where you will exit the bus and follow signs to the Red Line inbound to Alewife via Park. (This transfer is free.) Once you’re on the Red Line train, you will get off at Kendall/MIT station, which is four stops away. You can find a trip planner and maps at the [MBTA</a> website](<a href=“http://www.mbta.com/]MBTA”>http://www.mbta.com/).</p>
<p>Cabs are also outside at ground transportation, but they cost $30+ from the airport to MIT. Public transportation is just about as fast, and is a lot cheaper. </p>
<p>MIT will be running free shuttles for prefrosh back and forth to the airport during the weekend, but I’m not sure when they start and end on Thursday.</p>
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<p>Mollie, do you find that the Silver Line is faster? I’ve actually found that when I want to get home from Logan, the Blue Line (switching to Green at Gvt Center and to Red at Park) is faster because the Silver Line seems to come less often (and its speed is more dependent on traffic conditions). I might have just been unlucky with the Silver Line, though.</p>
<p>The T is actually $2 now without a CharlieCard, if I remember correctly. I generally find that the Silver Line takes about 45 minutes to get from MIT to the airport, but it definitely has the benefit of having somewhere to put your suitcase and not having to worry too much about dragging your things around T cars.</p>
<p>Oh, duh – resident snobbery to forget that not everybody has a card already. Maybe I should have said that it’s $59/month, since that’s the only fact that concerns me. :P</p>
<p>Jessie, I do prefer the Silver Line when I’m going somewhere on the red, but I just detest that double change, especially because you have to wait for the shuttle bus to the blue line anyway, and especially especially with luggage. I also think the blue-green-red is harder for people who don’t know their way around the city – back in the day when I was a country mouse prefrosh, I found it very alarming to switch trains so many times. (I had never been on a subway by myself. Mileage probably varies for prefrosh who are less sheltered.) The silver line has the advantage that you just sit there until the bus stops, so there’s only one point where you have to worry you might be going the wrong way.</p>
<p>+1 more vote for the silver line : )</p>
<p>Various friends who have needed to make their way from Logan to Alewife have generally fared better on the Silver Line. Now, part of that has to do with lugging stuff - if you are traveling light and are used to public transport, then the blue-green-red might be better. And a cab will , indeed, take about the same amount of time - although if (unlikely, I suppose) two friends from the same school are coming, they could share a cab, making it not too bad.</p>