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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  At approximately 11:20 pm on Tuesday night, Charles stepped on the ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and ... lights, check. Ignition-like turn-on mechanism, check. Steering wheel

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals ... 's distributed computing environment, and her likeness has been featured on a ... theoretical knowledge, but also focusing on hands-on learning. An appropriate

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  the scoop on MIT from other current students. The more I learned about ... only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a ... Center. Another mind-boggling architectural masterpiece at MIT. On Friday I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  3:30 on Patriot's Day Morning and rode off into a quiet, misty land ... of people: those standing in front, those perching on ladders ... stood on the bench and I stood on the bench's back, using her shoulder to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  decisions will be made available online on Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 PM EDT ... click on the lost password link in the orange log-in box on the left. If ... without your MIT ID, your username and password may not work on decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  hope this important point isn't lost on you guys. Classes aren

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  of stairs in two hours on Friday night. That's 12 times up the tallest ... ideas that are not good ones. On the day of the Green Building Challenge ... better to do on a Friday night, along with increased risk of heart failure

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Decisions Details for retrieving your EA admissions decision on Monday evening.

  

  decisions will be made available online on Monday, December 15 at 9:00PM EST ... ://my.mit.edu and click on the lost password link in the orange log-in box on the ... may not work on decisions.mit.edu. Best wishes! -- MIT Admissions To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  off. All present: May, you need some sleep. May: But my paper’s on The ... . On Tuesday, though, was an equally important last lecture- Professor ... eyes on, had our last review lecture for 18.02, Multivariable Calculus

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... 'll spare the gory details. Suffice to say, the warm and copious food on the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  little fuzzy on the details." ***** "I wasn't alone. I was with my computer" ***** "...so apparently [fruit punch?] is a good source of red-40..." ***** on ... 's bounded... therefore it converges!!!" - a guy enthusiastically talking on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to bestir. Well, unless the following calculation appears on the brunchtime

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday ... , but come Thursday night I didn't feel comfortable betting on it (or ... MIT, rather than work on your ability to recognize problems you already

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... favorite Disney movie of all time- I will not budge on this point. I make

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  of physics only concentrating more on movement and using differential ... is where I continue to work on ElectroPlushies and get them up and ... production so this class gives me a chance to work on details. Western

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention ... strapped on my skates, grabbed my directions from Google Maps, and headed out ... me to skate on. I tried going left, skating for a while to see if there

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was ... on the Admissions site. It's true that we encourage our bloggers to ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008