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  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... get glasses. They look like this: Unfortunately, I was deliberately ... photography, apparently - though to be honest, I had no idea whether putting the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  I've always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in ... shiny football stadium. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find MIT more “jock-y” than I expected. So many students play varsity sports, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  I've been involved, in some form or fashion, with MIT Admissions for 4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  -Year Grade Report until January, unless you're on a trimester system. I don ... specific dates for decisions would be just that -- speculation. I promise you ... Counselor (interviewer, or EC), I recommend you do so very soon (right now is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That was really kind of terrible form, I know. But Ben and my mom are conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  in its District regional competition. "I always wanted to go to MIT. MIT was my dream since I was a freshman. I would make up passwords to my ... 's like an Oscar. That would be amazing if I were chosen for it, but it's OK

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  also wrote:  In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives.  Whatever the outcome, I very ... toward those with whom we may disagree. This fall, I am co-teaching a First

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

    I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a ... part, one of the coolest things I heard was here: Absolutely beautifully. And this was all done…based off of numbers. I think that’s one of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  I've had fewer strange dreams lately, but the pace is still frantic ... curricula in Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); I know ... so close to Fenway that you can hear the PA system. I had a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... given, then plan your day around those two activities. Did I mention

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... problems and ground our theory. I won't go over the details (take the class

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  onslaught of folks that would be coming in. I worked with five or six other ... meaningful and fun to the MIT community and I'm so happy I'm able to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before ... culture and attract well-matched new residents. I've embedded a PDF below ... it for the return of students, and I wanted to share it ahead of Labor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... can get from Texas?) Their first posts will be coming soon, and I promise, you should be very excited! And of course, I want to thank

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... systems. In it, I found this photo of Harvard Bridge from 1929: This

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... video of the lecture on this page. And here is the syllabus: I'm glad

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and ... to log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do ... and u become afraid and need to be rescued by our tech support i.e. a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  architect of a venerable One Direction fanblog full of gifs and drama (i ... M. ’21 of Washington, I guess, who has Strong Opinions about bicycles ... . In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019