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  And term starts again…

  

  your classes so far? I got to see lots and lots of you during Orientation. :) ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  (EECS, or Course 6) at MIT, so if you're interested in working on the next special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  with their decisions this afternoon, so you should expect to hear from ... process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I ... . I need to have everything I own packed and stored by 6 PM tomorrow. Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in ... nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  said. Her eyes glazed over. "Oh...right," she said. "This is your job ... students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team ... this poster, printed it out on 11x17" glossy paper, and affixed it to his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... think that at other schools, maybe athletes don't have to do silly things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at ... six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  had just moved to Cambridge not even 3 months before, and was adjusting to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... and sadness."]spills toppings, cheese, and sauce all over your lap[/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  's awesome to go to school with über-geniuses, even if (especially if) you're ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese ... much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP ... arcade that we went to the last time we hung out with our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific ... Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  , courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper ... identity lends itself to a political identity: the idea of a blank passport ... ;present,” but your identity is “absent.” (Oh, and what about the droll

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing ... examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011