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Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…
free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.
By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless it was also the last day of school) My summer last year was laid -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.
Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this -
Blog / Miscellaneous
‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!
Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the ... of you are taking advantage of your holiday time with family, too -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
+1 for MIT MIT scores again!
I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score! -
Blog / MIT Life
Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.
myself. All of the applications have been fantastic! (There's still a week left before the EA deadline, for those of you who are procrastinating ... all end up. I have a lot of blog-comment-questions to respond to - look -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.
Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to take 11.025J D-Lab: Development, since I have studied "issues of ... would take CMS.410 Popular Culture in the Age of Media Convergence -
Blog / Admissions
Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.
number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.
the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon. -
Blog / Events
Time Traveling and Teleporting
, three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national edition! Also, for those of you wishing for teleportation powers so you -
Blog / About Decisions
The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.
Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively -
Blog / Admissions
Busy times
For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been ... busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two -
Blog / Athletics
Odds & ends
Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won -
FAQ / Academics and research
When was MIT founded?
Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked! -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Snow On working in a winter wonderland.
Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?
Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such -
Blog / MIT Life
Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it