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  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  grades for these courses instead of looking at an SAT II score?" I'm not on ... opinions of every adcom on the matter. Not true - at least at MIT. Any of my ... 't tell you. This sort of hair splitting is certainly not on our minds when

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  good time. however, i subsisted on oreos, mozzarella sticks, doritos, and ... days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  other ESP chapters after they went on to grad school. As of now, UChicago ... nutshell, if you take away the nights of tooling in deserted locales on MIT ... Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... reminiscent of a dying porpoise. Now, he's good enough that he's more ... 've been working on all semester. Last Saturday, I hit up Grains Of Rice, an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of ... noticed that there was an abnormally large number of interesting lectures on ... series on The Future of Water. Speaker: Vandana Shiva, Director, Research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... of my friends this surreal video about studying math because the experience of waiting and frustration and enlightenment is, thankfully

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving crazy person. Maybe both. Come on, many brilliant people are crazy. Ergo ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's time to look elsewhere." Outside of the lab, Vivek enjoys playing on the ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  our compassionate best, and good luck with the rest of your applications ... members of the Class of 2018. I'll be closing comments on this post to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the ... being evaluated based purely on coursework. The value of the GEL program

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a ... I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but ... 've been a bit sad this week, and many of you have been wondering why: "you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  ). And on top of all of that I make dat cash moneyz. So, you know, it's an ... braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the ... Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i've been spending a lot of time ... for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time on buses. i've been sick. i've been drinking a lot more tea: jasmine

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Lunch

  

  Director of Admissions Matt McGann Good luck with today's judging! ... those of you looking for that information, here it is: The MIT Office of ... and guests from 2:30 to 4pm on Thursday (May 12th) at Majerle's Grill

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Student Center). It was good relaxation during a serious time of year. The ... one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student ... Office followed, making for a fun Admissions Dance Party of sorts (which is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  row way on the other end of the room. I want to interject here and say ... next to the Page lab on the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute, so I ... end is on the outside of the cell and the anime group end is on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public use blackboards in Stata! (If you haven't seen it, more background on ... : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019