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• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am perfect today. Perfect? What do you mean, "perfect," you ask? Well, today ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through various forums about ambition and achievement. Simultaneously you hear "you ... change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above ... used (location? design? stigma?). In a community in India (I think

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct ... parthenogenesis. Anyhoo, the last time I posted, like, a gazillion years ago, I mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the

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

  Business As Usual

  

  Day, and I took full advantage, with an overnight train trip along West ... my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mit-france/ This should be awesome, and I will post pics if I manage to take any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  books around here can't we?" (sorry, Laura, I know you asked other questions...but I'll answer this one first.) Ahh, never spend $700 on books

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  until I was old enough to have my own stereo system, I jammed out with her

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

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  admit. It was extremely difficult! I had thought we were done with tough ... waitlist again. Until then, I don't know. Also, we will begin notifying some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  A message for juniors out there: with the deadline for the June testing date approaching, I highly recommend signing up for SAT Subject ... the Subject Tests be taken in June, but I think it's a pretty good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a few odds & ends... CPW update: for everyone who has registered ... -Veronica Mars fans are quite confused by now, I'm sure). Trying to figure out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  digital photos and I'll post them online. Here's a photo of Resonance ... I look forward to meeting you at the biggest admitted students party

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the Safe ... pictured below; later, I caught up with Sam and Mitra enjoying the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  On Friday, I attended a Undergraduate Economics Association(UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... years ago." Heh. While googling Holmstrom for this entry, I found this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  A couple weeks ago, Mitra commented on her CI-M (Communications Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My turn! So this semester, I took Quantitative Physiology I: Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  money. Well, these folks graduated two years ago, so last year I decided ... of Sunday, I baked for 16 straight hours and, finding myself completely ... rolling out pizza dough on a cutting board. This year, I was a bit more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  Saturday afternoon, which included a performance by the Cross Products. I ... Community. When I visited the sand mandala, this monk was singing a beautiful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  Fabolous from his songs such as "I Can't Deny It" and "Breathe," and you may ... the International Fair (or I-Fair), where the many international student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  food for free to MIT's students. I wasn't there, but I'm told that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... concentration, I have seen just tremendous, insatiable intellectual hunger in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019