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The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…
Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an -
Blog / MIT Life
The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.
, but luckily I keep band-aids on hand. Yes, for the next day my finger -
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Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…
Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math -
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MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.
hands-on experiments and team-based projects. Please note that all three -
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Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.
other teams are still working on it! But it's so awesome to be working -
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2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!
real holiday falls on a Sunday. So you should be able to submit stuff -
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Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.
Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only have two finals -- but they're almost maximally temporally separated, since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning -
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Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.
, when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your questions and not on thermodynamic principles running subconsciously through ... to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on -
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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 ... positron based on which direction the particle turns in a magnetic field ... continued through the summer, where she mostly worked on using scanning -
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December Events
's on Sunday the 11th at 8pm, and it's FREE! Formed in 1949, the Logs ... on Sunday the 11th. The Logs once again welcome back the BU Terpsichore ... -ed a cappella groups, has recently received the honor of appearing on the -
Blog / About Decisions
Selection? They're selecting the earlies...
I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They're selecting Early Action applicants. Yes, on a Saturday. These folks are amazing. I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were -
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The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.
Engineer drank on and said, "It's only gasoline." Thrilling -
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The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.
's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday -
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Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.
This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs -
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Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.
bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... with: "on the same note, should we have October scores rushed to MIT ... anyone with an 800. Focus on the things that are actually used to select -
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PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…
expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose -
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Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.
So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in the bathroom that decided to spray water all over the house. While fun -
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Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.
really fascinating history lesson on the life of Henry Moseley, juxtaposing ... -ray spectroscopy. Analysis revealed that the sack of potatoes lying on the ground ... walked into the lecture hall with the month of Moseley's landmark paper on -
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I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.
. Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... problem set on an empty stomach. Dominos stays open late, and La Verde's is ... the top ten (+/- 3) places on campus to study. This week, I