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  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  cameo in the first episode of CSI: Miami. She spent the following year ... the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and ... coming year is the Year of the Pig. So, as has become the tradition, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... other 17's. It was my first time on the other side. My turn to tell the ... going to one. There's still some happening the second half of this week

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of ... 're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 ... , the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) -- the oldest of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... the snow is COLD!" and amusing everyone else. I remember my first winter ... much snow...and the roommate was from India and having her first snow

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of ... ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the fall of last year, there were three economics majors in the entire class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  , which proved to be highly entertaining. The first act was a group of ... two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places--the ... into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  the first time. I hope that gives you a sneak peek of the new approach ... firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the ... 's sneak preview of the production, technology, quite literally, only serves

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one ... still allowed to use the -blr suffix?"]studyblr[/annotation] levels of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  distracted... This was the Gatorade break at the end of the first round: My ... activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  other members of MIT EMS to receive the first Collier Medal.  It was a ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  ’t wear my Brass Rat much at first. Part of me didn’t see the point of ... In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  fraternity”s Jewels. It was the FIRST institution of its kind for collegians, a ... proactive by reaching out to the Brotherhood. Men of Alpha are the first of ... of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk about this in public channels by residents, alumni, friends of the Haus

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  didn't just snap a picture of the gel itself. First, I did that in the ... were some...issues in loading the first couple of samples. It's hard to ... today on the subject. In between her uncontainable excitement over - of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012