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  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator ... happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  incorporates and embraces the properties of intelligence, competence,and ambition ... to share ideas, air frustrations, and advance the leadership role of women at the Institute (MITRA NOTE: I have pictures of this, and will

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  them and feel like I have numerous holes in my understanding of the ... /NR and thus alleviating the majority of my anxieties each week. I won ... , well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards the end of the panel, I introduced myself and asked them what they felt ... , and we're often touted as being in the "age of artifical intelligence

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... trains and bus drivers and photos of swings - the things that make you ... accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his ... the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  the night, hundreds of people wanting to meet you, and tons of ... the CPW webcast two weekends ago and already have an idea of how to ... one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  hurt my thumb, but I like the aesthetic. And of course, there’s always ... and the rain starts to fall, I look down and see hints of green beneath ... man on fire. It’s been on shirts and stickers and a variety of other

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the ... , and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not ... We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... beaver, just like (and for the same reasons as) ours. Recently, Daphne ... Teachers Association, to help let teachers know about the challenge and how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of ... ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... completed. So it's about half personality and half random. :) All the hosts

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various ... , or watched. It's a holiday weekend, and I think most of our American ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  were born near the end of Mao Zedong’s reign, and while they escaped the ... college students in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and ... removed and the path forward will be cleared.  The future is in all of our

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  Cambridge and Boston skylines on the sides of the ring: while you're at MIT ... background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  submit Part 1 of the MIT Application. Select EA and do not pay the ... About the Early Action Deadline and Application Components   ... their materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  ). Join us for an hour of relaxation, self-reflection, and personal growth. Our time will include some conversation about practices and benefits of meditation and an experience of guided visualization, a simple, nonsectarian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines ... their creators? What do you think of the religious overtures of BSG

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  ), where I ate delicious food and worked on mastering the basics of ... campus, the streets of Boston are literally pulsing with brightness and ... , brushes, and a lot of paper towels, we hit play on the video and scrambled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019