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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  read and get acquainted with the various seating options. I picked up a copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it ... I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  navigate through a maze, and I started to get the hang of Python. I started ... development' or 'I want to learn C++' I committed to it by getting a book from ... .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a ... before 9, so even if you go to bed at 3, you can still get some solid hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... -problem-making-person did not plan for, or if no checking-person is able to get the right ... the Big Game have made me so used to very-well-made problems that I get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to ... difficult to get out of it. We are literally fighting an algorithm designed to ... by day it only gets harder and harder to focus and ignore the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  that some others seem to be taking few lectures and still not getting it ... he was sometimes struggling to get some medieval poem in arcane english ... was nothing we hadn't heard before, it was still interesting to hear it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... . We are currently 6-1 in conference play and getting ready to begin the ... — so many laughs, coffee walks, hikes, and just getting to spend time

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... winning: "I didn't f--- this up!  Now I get to troll Politico ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and ... thoroughly explored chemical compound and then getting to perform any reactions ... students and I got to get a feel for what kinds of work chemists are expected

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done ... Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... ="83283" /] 4. Chalk art Although we can’t paint on the walls, we can use chalk to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  10am-ish Work out from 10:30-12 Get lunch from 12-1 Go to class ... friends because they don't live in my house and I barely get to see them ... go to singing lessons and get better at fingerpicking songs instead of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  weeks pass I'll get a better feel for this place. Maybe even start to fit ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you ... here.  Stovetops don't have knobs to control the gas, instead they

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  event was so much fun! First everyone got in line to get their rings to ... to coordinate with our different friend groups to get pictures together ... photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  Wow, most exciting/eventful two days ever. I'm very sad to say that 2.007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  the past month (in another). I scramble to get out my phone and write it down incoherently. I get home from the concert and try to explain it out ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply ... -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007