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  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  must take classes or work during the first month of the year, I always ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  also reminds me of the time I tried to track my caffeine intake vs. sleep ... unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  the #7 and #10 seeds in the tournament missed the first five integrals ... but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, there's no reason for me to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  those that haven't read The Color of Water, it'll make 200 pages of Veto ... spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated ... the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Sunday in the Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway, the track where he ... was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps the first ever. He was admitted. But he said no. Here's the story, from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to ... that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... good stuff is beautiful - some of the most beautiful stuff in human

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  of the MIT community who have started companies or created products ... process. (You guys know how I feel about the thousands of vendors who ... with Michael about his vision for the next generation of college campus

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international ... person. That right was compromised here, which is the bulk of why this was ... Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  that as of last night, more than half of the applicants have already ... tracking system. We are opening a lot of mail right now, and it takes substantial time to process all of these forms that come in right at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  harder for air. It's the first time I've been that scared for one of my ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  the beginning of the summer, because he was helping me move into my ... becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA ... of a problem (problem as in problem set, not personal problem). And the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  (because the first night had to be spent sharing the marvelous happenings of ... 's around 30 pages), the task was quite impossible. After all, how do I pick ... after the start of those, “Virgin Bartending” (non-alcoholic) begins. At 2

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always eating and never doing dishes, so the sink looks like that. Second of all ... of dry-erase boards, they improvise. This is the wall of 5.12 (organic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did ... handing out of the degrees. Otherwise, check the commencement web page for ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E ... (E.Jones) instead of E.Jones2, but the truth is, our power really is

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  top 10 in the whole of india, i guess...it somehow doesnt show on my ... 'm sure you must be familiar with most of them) how highly do you rank the ... better insight into the exam as a whole..?" You should send us whatever

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead ... in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over ... well I'll have more confidence about the possibilty of moving into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to be involved." I emailed the students in charge of the DEAL program

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016