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  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  Jamboree, All A Cappella Extravaganza, and the 7th Annual Battle of the Bands ... , and planning the Closing Remarks and Variety Show. After all the "day ... the Closing Remarks and Variety Show Saturday night. Details: Saturday

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  at the College of William and Mary before swiftly transferring) so when ... dumped up to 20" of snow all up and down the seaboard, including record ... northern New England and insulated it from the ravages of the storm. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  .704 Continued study of the language, literature, and culture of Spanish ... . The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them ... techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  couldn't have lasted, of course, and it didn't. As the graffitied Walt ... figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent ... seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  headquarters in Cupertino, CA to engage with the rest of our team and do my final ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  was just yesterday. And now I've got one-eighth of the way left. Man I ... History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... Freshman year. "Wow guys," said Katy, "You're one-eighth of the way done with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  same column of desks in class and proclaimed ourselves the cool row ... failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed ... One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  the class is one of the most rewarding moments of the admissions cycle. I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... 've been thinking about that's open for discussion. The announcement of MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  the energy sector. It also houses a wealth of resources and ... transport and conversion. Finally, the class explores some of the side effects ... wealth of past experiences and expertise in all of the scientific and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... , our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ... life. (Who can argue with that?) And whenever I see those first flakes ... interest of full disclosure, I should point out (for the parents' sake, if

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  the Triforce of Power, Nayru contributed the Triforce of Wisdom, and ... In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at ... speech on the intricacy of Windows* and read this book to learn more. Me ... admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  32 percent of the votes, and 19 percent of the votes went to Cornell ... For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... 's Doonesbury: and see more at Doonesburg@Slate. The Tech covered this story in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  no guys) Two and a Half Men Law and Order: SVU The Real Housewives of ... a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... research, contemplation, and attempted synthesis of the thoughts generated, I ... ’ refers to the size of something, and is often denoted as the absolute value

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013