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  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot ... -known problems associated with the USNWR rankings; my fellow blogger and colleague ... questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  )_/¯" maybe you can be the judge of that. i'm taking 5.12 (organic chemistry i ... 's been okay so far. the labs are fun, despite being intense, and i like ... just trying to pass the class and put it on pnr, since 046 is notoriously

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  routines is also hard my body really has aged and no longer can function on ... 'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  has to be entered into the database and tracking system. Next, things ... finishing the application, we're working on filing the applications. Today ... , and filed. The process of receiving your applications takes time. First

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  you can ask him. 4. We got to rock out to the Joneses: Ben Jones and ... the people who admitted you to college, rock out on stage, and then bid ... to see Tim the Beaver crowd surf and listen to Marilee on the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  single formula. Unfortunately, even the most complex formulas can be wrong ... , with the speed of sound being the usual  = 340 m/s and ... the problem and a preliminary estimation, you can improve upon the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . But as Justin said, Cambridge students keep an eye on the long-term, and ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  variations, almost anywhere on earth. But MIT is the only place where I can ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  this was because Shyam '07 kept asking the other social chair and me, offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  'll share what advice I have, and hopefully it can be useful to some of you ... be able to forget it... seared in my mind is the stars and the lights ... all the constraints that bound me before. Like I could be anyone and the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Franklin valedictorians. But his performance on AP tests and the college ... retain the material and really learn it," he says, "not so much on getting ... engineering is the field for him. Chemical engineers get to draw on math and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  the future! And you can do so many things with them - that's why I love ... be an EMT. If it gets overwhelming, I can give up helping others ... internships and friends that I had. I'm excited for the next step (a real job (I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  BANG!, pull the trigger all the way back and keep sight on target even ... . Inhale, raise arm. Exhale a little, press gently on the trigger until you meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... ). Eventually, we all but gave up on winning the competition part and focused on ... . I ran into Killian Court and flipped the bird. I gave everyone the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  things, and I'm so happy I got the chance to see it. I have to focus on ... -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3,000+ teams in 12 countries worldwide. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  information. The 3D animation pipeline and 2D animation pipeline can both be ... effects can be SO cool! We watched some of the Pixar in a Box videos on Khan ... films or TV shows can be so beautiful and stunning. We REALLY wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of ... field, have won a Nobel, and may literally be the smartest person on earth ... , in my book) that could get away with using Comic Sans (the other being

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few ... Financial Aid and that’s great! Applications are handled through the ... won’t be answering questions about financial aid on this post

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  the half-semester class I took on multimedia and place ... brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back ... crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. https ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022