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  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  Here at MIT, with our large population of international and immigrant students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  kinds of nanowires available to us, but there are very few tools to ... tweezers, which work using the forces of radiation pressure, where radiation ... Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  to grit my teeth and power through, forcing myself into a state of ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... haze of decision fatigue which has rendered me fully unable to formulate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

   choosing between jobs to estimate their probability of making each choice. Their ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality instead. Actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of ... [/annotation] to the end of the [annotation note="long (~1/6th of a mile) hallway ... here. I’ve started to use Google Calendar for the first time, and now

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  we wrote a lot of code to carry out force computations and physics ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  , I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the ... past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... out at the sea of faces and realized what a magical job it is to be the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of ... never return to where you were before of course, if your cart is bad

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

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  can filter through the options to search for the kind of program that ... deadlines! REALLY important. Remember to keep track of deadlines for getting ... application on the official UROP website, and send it to the UROP office for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  forces you to comply in the various spaces, speeches and platforms of daily ... . ... Without laws of nature to anchor them, algorithms used in such subjective ... analogies from the past to their lay image of the new technology, create a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... nature of the human mind? Much of our work uses a brain imaging method

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll ... to adequately describe the eclectic mix of videos that are added by the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... the count, it's not that hard to follow. By the end of the 1 hour lesson

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT ... poll the names of people who were available. (Oops) Cue a second Google ... . [annotation note="And try their highest level of spice."][/annotation] To my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  : Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result ... variety of food, not too terribly crowded and close to a number of beautiful ... outreach to other Nations. Brodrick Childs Class of 2013 MIT

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... importance of oil. But also, he put the challenge to the freshmen, the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  't allowed to take pictures of anything. We were taken down "Main Street" and got to see the really old, original versions of most of the Hasbro toys ... toys, current toys, and even prototypes of toys yet to be released. After

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

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you ... finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 ... to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022