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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  I’ve been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are harder than others and omg my friend says this class is impossible and don’t be concerned about the…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Catherine Huang ’10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads Jennifer Sim and Di Ye…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry… Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A Riddle! Don, tell them what they’ve won. Wow! I am impressed by how many of you met…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  [by CDT Vikram Mittal, MIT ’09 Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) training exercise. Twenty insurgents…

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred A forum for students who were deferred.

  

  In the near future, we’ll have some advice here on the blogs for students who have been deferred. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  Admitting such a small percentage of the applicant pool means that we unfortunately have to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are, the louder the complaining. Sometimes they complain about the cold, sometimes about the yankees, about their…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  When the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The first…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Well, for one thing, they are all whole numbers. For another, they are all integers. While I’m there, I might as well say that they’re real…. Okay, I’ll stop being…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for finals, which are now…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben’s post regarding the official release date of early action decisions. SIX DAYS! Six days! Man, that’s a short time. When I was your age, we…

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

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this – we wanted to be very confident in the decision release date before announcing it publicly. We’re on schedule to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended Williams College. Long before I became politically conscious, he told me a story about some people whom he’d…

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  “It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of the eggs and each egg reached maturity, it would take only three years to fill the sea so…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a stressful situation like this:…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are only 8 weeks long and amazingly short compared to MIT’s semesters. Many of the CME students are…

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International’s MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions.…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn’t “real snow” – it melted all before noon!) I was walking…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  Right now, I’m sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007