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  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  got a 2 on AP Calc and I still got into MIT! Hah!). Of those, four of ... classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of ... behaviors for different types of light sources, cameras, and objects. There ... gauntlet of coding, I rendered squashed and textured spheres and triangular

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  terrifying. For almost five years of my life I had been set on this one path ... organization. That night, one of the companies called me back and asked for an ... developments and advising different groups based on that information. It’s a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  public. and of course, for those of you who keep up with gaming news - the ... [/annotation], and as a part of sony playstation, we were included in that ... center, and i was so happy - it's cloud's (the protagonist of final fantasy

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  ), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I ... , and could only admit ~1600 students. But most of the students to whom we ... and reputation, it is often discounted. So, at the end of each of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  Science, and Applied Biological Sciences", existed in the MIT Course Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until the last remaining ... . This is all chronicled in my favorite Tech article of all time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... , approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and Walker Memorial. Over the years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  costs of running an admissions office are vast, and the application fee ... application fee waiver if you fall into any of the following categories: You ... this entry defining who should apply and why. Some of you may come away

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the ... than 3.022, I am working on my management minor with 15.812 and 15

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... of STEM that goes on, but we were not so aware of the vibrant art ... playlist), and let people work on whatever projects they want to work on! We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  . It’s so on the nose, so cliche. You abandon all of it and start over ... short to not at least try, and whether or not it’s any good I’m proud of ... post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of ... decided to go on a camping trip at the beginning of the week and spent the ... the first full week of classes, and looking back on all the things I did

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  , and now the only things out-of-place on hall are the piles of dirty ... Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... -veterans, and they were unlike any I’ve heard. We are extremely fortunate at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every ... put in my best effort and keep my eyes on my own paper. I like building ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  . Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why ... [William Temple] Hornaday's book on the animals of North America and ... : And finally, the Class of 2000 Brass Rat (the one currently on my right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the ... ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... for you and your parents. Write letters of recommendation for you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... dedicated myself to the black and white pieces on the board and learned the patterns like the back of my hand and anticipate every next move? What if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020