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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Florey and James E. Tetazoo trace their own origins back to the 1960s

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  that the news could also “boost my chances”. Excitedly, I sent an e

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  reflected that Poincar´e, with whom Klein had a (mental breakdown inducing ... upon the method of exhaustion, i.e., in modern phraseology, upon the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  a beautiful summer day in Boston I stayed in Boston last summer. For MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are three main housing options…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  down at Terminal E instead of Terminal A because I didn’t realize my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  been able to prove my technical chops (i.e. a few publications under my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . Sheffield’s story time (i.e. learning the fundamentals of probability but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  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

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• 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

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• 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

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  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

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  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

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• 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…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  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…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  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…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

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  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
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  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

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013