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  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  can ignore the text boxes and simply choose the option, "I attend a ... be available on ______________________ and I will mail or fax them to ... grades to report. You should choose the option, "I’m not currently

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku ("Jungle Water") The brainchild of Kendra Johnson '09, Sacha Yaku aims to empower the women of Santa Ana

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  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 automatically patching a Linux kernel without reboots. Jeff Arnold '07, MEng '08

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  Happy November 1, Early Action applicants! Today is the day that, if you haven't yet done so, you must click the "Submit" button on your EA app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  From the comments on my last entry, the mean is 3.21748954013248 and the standard deviation is 1.07001670365812. These two classes are offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  What should I attend tonight? Option 1: 4th Annual LATKE-HAMENTASHEN DEBATE Today, 8:00 p.m. in Room 10-250 Don't miss this exciting debate between the fruit-filled cookies known as Hamentashen and the fried potato

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  I hear that if you're an incoming frosh, you got your temp housing ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few ... , however, that while these freshmen are fictional, I've seen their real life

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in the portal. (Quinton is the code-master around here; he's constantly

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... that will soon become evident, I think most of this is at best overstated ... , especially those who are focused on writing and teaching. So I was pleased to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... national examinations such as the (I)GCE, CAPE, WASSCE, KCSE, French

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  kleitsya, i veter s okeana veyetsa, molniya nebo obvernulo, I k nam ... ! Oblaka nizko viseli, i my tikhonechko peli...... Sand is sticking to our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get ... QB applicants in general over here. AHHHH I DID MY INTERVIEW BUT IT ... in your MyMIT tracker. AHHHH I CAN’T CHECK THE STATUS OF MY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  version of a powerpoint literary presentation I gave at Alpha Delta Phi a ... moral goodness and badness can be defined and assigned. I claim this is ... sound system, X, which simultaenously enforces and black-boxes (i.e. hides

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , Technique, was published. Through the yearbooks, I tracked the lives and ... Blogs, I collected screenshots of MIT student history and culture from ... through the jokes, poems, and other notes, I disagreed. Many of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016