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  Selection Day 3

  

  just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve ... Putnam, it's no surprise that the top performers on the IMO go on to ... little to no preparation, score 99 points on an exam with median score 2

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Jo-Jo Update

  

  Chang '03 advanced to the Semi-Final round but, sadly, did not win. (The winner was the former captain of the New England Patriots Cheerleading squad) Joanne did win the preliminary Group A talent competition. Way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote ... their hopes and fears regarding the new administration, and many faculty ... , including (but not limited to) those who are registered for Deferred Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  , I couldn't just tweet about it - I had to post it on the blog, too ... promise as we approach mid-March, I hope to have some more blog updates. Just saw this article/video on CNN of Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, who works

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... different department?" More on the rest of my classes later, but I want you to ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  his theory of relativity. Click on the picture to read the lyrics on ... to go to class. ("Next Monday, I promise!") Great! Good. Get into MIT ... on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... I found at H-Mart. It was pretty good! I'm trying to cut back on carbs ... . Heat a small non-stick pan on medium and add butter to coat. (I only did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  something about being in school, where all your work is on your own ' ... post copied down on sticky notes and stuck to my desk.  ... after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... taken to another level with our improvised marching band accompaniment on ... thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one ... to whatever object you're watching move around. And that clock is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  difficult to remember names or what's going on. So lately I've been waking up ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of Afghanistan?" "What would allow the Roman Empire to last until today?" Table

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have ... dressing up as an electron orbital (e-mail me if you want to claim your ... time to go shopping for supplies. I settled on dressing up as Trinity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  wrong goal. It suggests that we "get over it" while the only goal you can really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  news is that this has been an ideal place to see people as they arrive on ... , I get to "float" a bit more tomorrow. Looking forward to the EC bouncy ... registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus. Your score, which you aim to maximize, is calculated as (the number of ... going to MIT Medical and then go social distance from everyone on Briggs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  goal, they explain on their Web site — vds.mit.edu — is “to identify the ... We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  skyline, and thus love my room. When there’s nice weather out, I get to see ... lovely spring afternoon, waiting to go on one of our social events: a ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  right to work on everything from scenery to signalling. Remember AP ... If you don't go to MIT, when you think about "hacking," you probably ... caffeinated soda and delivery pizza. If you do go to MIT, resourceful rooftop

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006