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fact I just discovered Iron Man also went to MIT.
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Blog / Academics & Research
It’s alive! I built a little car.
For better or worse, my 2.007 car actually drives. It's not quite as cool as Melis's, but it will do. Pictures and reflection about the design process tomorrow, once I actually finish designing and building it -
Blog / About Decisions
The Undecideds It's crunch time for college decisions.
With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more -
Blog / Admissions
Campus Preview Weekend
CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I -
Blog / Events
Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa
hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... the chocolate, but I skipped that step. I did follow orders when it came ... pieces. I found "seafood" in one piece that Sam thought tasted like "olives -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.
It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught up in applications that I didn't read Sunday's New York Times, usually -
Blog / Academics & Research
Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.
getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going ... comment and I'll let you know. DID YOU KNOW? The entry title comes from ... while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing -
Blog / Events
My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.
, a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might ... halfway through the night, I was tempted to switch from dress shoes to flip ... the country might look like or how far I went to stick out on this -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…
the last 6 years I have lived in 4 houses, had 3 careers, and 2 kids. I think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and kid level for a long while, though.)Anything else? I was once quoted by -
Blog / Events
Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.
fries. I feel really bad for the stands that were *selling* garlic ... for free. The happiest (and stinkiest) I've been in years. Eating ... good as Costco at lunch. Why these people are dressed like this, I do -
Blog / Events
Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.
course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... prepare one another. This is the one I came up with. I'll be posting puzzles ... couple days later, I'll post the solution. Maybe you can join our team -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.
the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... , sorry, I just really like this door... and need a picture of it. Right now. Go ahead by!" I did receive applause from two self-identified "women -
Blog / Admissions
Class of 2009 Numbers
In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about ... , "Hmm...I know you can't tell us yet, but when you do, can you let -
Blog / Admissions
The Ethicist
As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times ... times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the ... recommendation. Ethical? Of course, the answer was "Not ethical." But I wonder what -
Blog / Admissions
Decision letters mailed
envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA ... prime number (though I'm sure you'd prefer a different prime number, maybe -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when
In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology ... classes. I'm a genius, I know.) Okay, here go some descriptions: (Note -
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6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot
If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class was themed around cats, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird pretty awesome that it happened twice. This semester, I took 6 -
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Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain
Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought -
Blog / Admissions
Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…
good title. Oh well, that's life. I'll start off by saying that I ... have missed. I've been reading these comments for a year and half now and ... entries question about admissions (I have a _ _ _ math and _ _ _ verbal -
Blog / Life after MIT
Three patterns from the pattern language of my life
Hello! It’s about 3,000 days since I graduated from MIT, and three ... newborn. In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW