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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio ... questions :)." On the whole, my biology professors have been very amusing ... some of the stuff they say is just too funny. Most faculty members teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  A month and a half ago, I posted the first part of my series ... format of the whole thing, and what is expected of you, and 4 full ... no shortage of work on the team. An excerpt from the proposal: The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  of my [annotation note='I actually opened up that essay for the first ... year was my first year as coordinator, and in the spirit of trying new ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... teams found the coin within a few hours of starting the hunt, they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  pictured above.) 2.) Notice how the first page says "Nathasha, help me," on ... definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the ... most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two ... on the ambulance this semester, one of which I'm currently on, and will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  MIT culture as a whole. Speaking of this year’s Mystery Hunt— The ... ’ll provide a general, chronological overview of how the hunt went first ... collection of 100 eecummings poems which is one of the first books i bought on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants ... the most recent admissions year, visit our Admissions statistics page ... (including future sittings) of the SAT, ACT, or English proficiency exams on
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  that developed the Solow Growth Model which dominated Chapters 7 and 8 of ... -I-can't-believe-these-people-are-live!" kind of feeling (kinda like a kid seeing Mickey Mouse the first time at ... , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  just one of those hidden truths. When I first heard about the Gordon ... on the economy or having fun on “The Today Show.” She’s actually one of ... me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... . One of those people was/is Christina Couch, a recent alumna of the ... ) immediately below.   Last September, at the height of election fervor, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  -profile individual’s Wikipedia page is one of the easiest, high-impact avenues of ...  Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  photos ourselves in a darkroom. This is my first print - a shot of the ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... within its floor plans. W91 later saw the installation and later removal of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  do it now. I blocked the whole day out of my calendar and spent the ... whole days. That felt like a lot of time. But in the grand scheme of ... puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  received in the first week of November will still likely make it into your ... province being published in the local newspapers. There is no other way of showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  just feel sort of gross about the whole thing. Then you get the test ... 's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the ... of Toy Fair, had our badges scanned, and then entered the fray. It ... between when all the kids in Willy Wonka first saw the candy room, and when

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... 's even more exciting when the team is winning. The night of the seventh ... when the Sox won, a massive crowd of people left Burton 3rd and went down

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007