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  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and ... designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap" meant to mitigate economic ... against a field of dozens for the chance to qualify for the Championship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  .  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a ... . we eliminated a [annotation note="Alan Z. ’23, Jonathan H. ’25 and I decided to ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... the automatic sense of community that you get when you walk into a room ... Name: Mollie Burgoon Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i ... ." me: "OH!!" a few minutes later we were all outside trying to catch ... and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  autograph my problem set. Now to see if they want a guest spot on my blog ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I ... So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  national sense of patriotism, or a common commitment to individual liberty ... civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  .  We recognize it's a lot of work for all of you to apply to MIT. We ... . We try to do what's best by MIT, and what's best by you. And ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... -D; Note: every line has 10 segments, each segment has to be moved a ... make 3D models. Basically, we modeled a cafe on AutoCAD and sent it to a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific ... team to learn “Wargaming,” which is like a more complex game of Risk but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... come up with the right details to describe a character, small things that ... , and my voice dropped to nearly a whisper, finger me hissed in the space

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... very close to classes. Anecdotal proof: --- For five years, I'd had a ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... -jitsu lessons as a PE class. I'm really quite glad I decided to take jiu-jitsu, as I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... groceries. I go to chain restaurants with parking lots. Sometimes after I get

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... , I got the even stronger itch to make a video. So, last night, I scrambled to film and edit a vlog for—I think—the first time since undergrad

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... Director was told to organize his or her classmates into a shelter team, an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  prestigious MIT PE programs, you might be aware of something called a Pirate Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you ... actually says GPRs.), but also I took a SCUBA class. I'm like an advanced

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... , and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of ... incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008