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  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  November 1 -- but really, if you're clicking submit at 11:59:59pm 11 ... need to fax materials at this point. Use traditional methods of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  makes about as much sense as anything else did at that hour of that night ... cars at the crossings.) I know where to find plenty of They Might Be

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... pretty-like (in color!). Before you look at that though, let's do a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  at MIT. As students, we tend to forget that looking people in the eyes ... several resumes, topping the evening off with a nice networking dinner at

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at Building 9 right now, maybe we can meet at Kresge?" I realized that there was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... to be shot by Boston police). At around 11:15 Dan and I prepared for

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  videos, compiled from the great people at MIT TechTV and (of course) You ... , but here's another video with Jacob's act, at the Festival Mondial du

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from ... , it's convenient - and at MIT, everyone checks it. They don't call this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  at least 5 years. The median SAT scores were 780 math (up 10 points ... and enriching four years at MIT. I'm more than a little jealous!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  club meetings, having dinner at my fraternity, playing Brawl, and ... occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at Stanford now). I did my first math "research" at Mathcamp. It was pretty ... them are now at MIT! (there are 7 here now, out of the entire program

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... felt missing, at least Pi/3 radians of my heart...It's great to have him

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  we have not processed it. We will not look at your application unfavorably because it is missing an application component at this time. We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... , including bloggers, will be participating in the hunt, which begins at noon in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  : Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after ... -nighter, had fallen asleep upright at his computer while wrapped in a blanket. He

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT ... night of Live Action Anime 2007: Madness at Mokuba. Yes, you read that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  look at. Anyway… as if the fact that the majors, buildings, AND classes are all numbered (e.g. “I have 5.111 at 12:00 in 10-250”) wasn’t enough ... of the links at the bottom of this entry, and rest assured that almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  formal swaps. We had our first CME study break at Downing College. Lots of ... days ago, we had another study break at Queens College. I got there very

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... comrades had not been similarly fortunate. At long last, a joint attack

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007