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Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™
interviewed Chris E. '21 and Alex H., Florida State '21, and they were teaching -
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150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know
now M11 Calculus and M12 Calculus. Other subjects include E40 English, G ... ? E12 English Composition, one option of which is The Post-War World -
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Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art
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Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...
. Sheffield’s story time (i.e. learning the fundamentals of probability but -
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40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…
dollar, a cheeseburger, and a milkshake that contained about ¬Ω cup of -
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G(e)e^ks
question, If pi and e had a fight, who would win? Because the standard of ... is clearly better, because: 1. you can eat it and it is tasty. e is not tasty. 2. people care to memorise more of pi than e. obviously it -
Blog / Academics & Research
21E our major in a diagram!
We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine -
Blog / How to Human
E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.
Rat. The second, an MIT e-mail address. There's just something about ... 't have a brass rat yet (this year though!) I did get my MIT e-mail address ... , but where did MIT students go to check their e-mail? What did it look -
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Pi(e) No, not π times e.
Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times e even though I meant "Pi/Pie". Anyways, as Pi Day approaches, I thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references -
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Blog / Admissions
Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.
scholastic distinctions: Math (e.g. AMC, ARML, Mu Alpha Theta) Science (e.g. Science Olympiad, USABO) Robotics (e.g. FIRST Chairman's Award, firefighting robots) Computer science (e.g. ACSL, USACO) Engineering (e.g. bridge -
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A Visit to eBay
consulting firm, and is working on the eBay account. The eBay complex reminds ... their buildings, like the cool people do, eBay names their buildings after ... pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of -
Blog / MIT Life
5E Rush Photos
I promised you 5th East Hall Rush photos, so here they are. 3rd East decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom. We were… -
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Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…
Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web interface anymore after taking an unintentional sabbatical from the esteemed blogging position for 1/38th of my… -
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Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…
(CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I’m way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I’m mostly excited. Excited to get fitted for… -
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Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1
the 1E logo (my hall in East Campus). AutoCAD was strongly ... that live here, and the logo overall doesn't quite read as 1 and E, it looks like an E with a weird flag. The 1 and the E being attached does -
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What is the mail address/fax number?
Email: [email protected] Fax: 617.687.9184 Mailing address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E38-200 Cambridge, MA 02139 -
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E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"
To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents an equal chance of partaking before it runs out. 3) When you send an e
