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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  , I hope you also continue to check out Mitra's blog, which gives a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to be shorter (ending ~4pm) and we get breaks when we need them. During one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the ... i think this does a pretty good job of appealing to a wide audience

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  I hope you like what we've done with the place. Seven years ago, I ... .edu. As I blogged here, the data showed we had a large overlapping audience ... decide to redesign? As I explained here, we were proud of our old website

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer ... requirements or statistics. And below, I've provided answers to some ... : Yes, the word count is enforced. There is, as I understand it, a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on Tuesday, January 3rd. However, with the RA deadline fast approaching, I ... , about standardized test requirements or statistics. And below, I've

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  stumble across. in my time, I've heard it being used for parties, scavenger hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... . there are countless elements to the installation that I couldn't detect

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I ... . One of the most fun and surprisingly useful materials I used were bread

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... . The students wanted to know what each step does to the DNA, so I’ll try ... , split peas, and corn. The kids were most excited about the strawberries. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  feats (such anecdotes are, I think, the only way to do some shred of justice to Mystery Hunt.) One puzzle I worked on was called "Pirates of the ... converting the numbers to Roman numerals. I'll be frank: never in a bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... never crosses my mind that we won’t pull through and come back — and I am ... half, John Carroll scores. It’s a bit disheartening, but I know that we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  [annotation note="to be defined soon!"]causal inference,[/annotation] I feel ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... intervention? If I wanted to understand the impact of my vaccine, my ideal

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  office will reopen on Tuesday, January 2nd. That said, I thought it was ... , about standardized test requirements or statistics. Below I added some ... 1 or before. However, I strongly discourage waiting until the last

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  seeking advice on implementing pet programs. "I never thought I'd be able ... working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Year! I spoke with one of his UROPs, Shan Tie ‘10, who said she found the lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and ... . I had several interviews with different labs and I finally decided

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  are lots of excellent points here (I really recommend you take the time ... neutrality are rooted, I want to extend the principle of net neutrality so that ... networks, platforms, and infrastructures both online and offline. To do so, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016