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Blog / About Decisions
Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.
admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check ... all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few of the parties around the country: one a day for the next week. (This -
Blog / Events
Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness
month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events--skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a -
Blog / Admissions
Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference
Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the purposes of this conference, as the Ivies + Stanford + MIT. The Ivy -
Blog / MIT Life
Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two
first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a ... Pizza." Now I'm not sure if it's because of the color or because of the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.
[by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... had been given a Director’s Grant from the Council of the Arts, as ... the scene. The table, first of all, had to be made. We used a roll of -
Blog / Events
CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.
;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality. Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact ... ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about -
Blog / Events
Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.
Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and -
Blog / Events
Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.
In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute -
Blog / MIT Life
¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT
Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the -
Blog / Events
Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook
-- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll -
Blog / Academics & Research
Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time
split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... idea," he whispered back. In 1982, Fink became a founding member of the ... program informed me of the existence of the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.
Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT ... , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours -
Blog / MIT Life
A short entry about dorm awesomeness
You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many -
Blog / How to Human
Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss
've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... , highlighter, or anything else. A good deal of the surface area here is made of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat
you through the unsatisfying yet convenient medium of cell phone ... minute. Either the ounce of fluff in its jaws was somehow dulling its survival instincts, or it was wondering if I was made of the same material. I -
Blog / Events
Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…
So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying ... Midway, I'll just try and cover the aspects of Orientation that have not ... advantage of our free rides on the T, we went to JP Licks. Susan Hockfield -
Blog / Academics & Research
class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy
I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.
It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep-fried broccoli flower, and the crunchiness of autumn tingles with the sound of -
FAQ / Academics and research
What is the Koch Institute?
Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus ... -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to