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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  size version of my face projected on the screen behind me.) It got crazy ... , that's mostly what I've been up to this summer--odd jobs on top of one of ... This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2 resident Jeremy, a native of Hull, Massachusetts, was all "Hey, my dad owns a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  promotional material, a lot of which we had seen as posters on/above the streets ... much more commonly used than French here. On top of that, since many of ... lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  They Developed  The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T ... Cheney Room, one of my favorite places on campus to take naps! Student ... tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr ... Time, we will email all students on our wait list their admission decision, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving ... e-mail from one of our alums, Mitch B. '03, about an underground Ice ... of ice. I didn’t bring ice skates, but Mitch let me borrow his and it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year ... . 363 days. The gym isn’t going anywhere on any of those days, right? I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  -efficient LED lights thanks to the invention of the blue LED. Masters of Light On ... straightforward – put all the components of a traditional electrical circuit on a ... ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  ? :) Let me put it this way: my roommate lives on Conner 2. I have lots of ... percentage of people who work on them on their own. So, that answers just ... -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 ... 's 7.9% acceptance rate! Speaking of MIT, how many MIT alums end up on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  won't be embarassed posting pictures of it on the Internet), this is ... -Conner Rex events and worked a couple of shifts on the ambulance as well. Now ... of them, so I'll fill you in on the details later. Right now, I want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  very fun. We saw lots of building and paint on walls that was very "wow ... Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from prospective applicants about what essay questions will be on our application ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  Link on the top to get more of an idea of the classes I'm taking. The links ... My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... "thing" will be 1.00, every day of this semester. But I promised myself I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012