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  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn't want to fight Smaug, etc. I protested something along the lines of ... at the crack of 7:45 and trudged the long cold route to the Bush room

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... success, and over 700 members of our 1000-person class attended! Here are 10 of the 12 members of Ring Committee. This is the outside of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  method. We will continue to accept pieces of your application even after ... , buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted ... , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  -constraint relevant to political philosophy is the constraint against the use of force ... force people to spend some of their working hours for someone else ... , economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to ... , sitting quietly and listening to the loop of news. At some point, I remember ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  some truth to both of those explanations, but i think another relevant factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a ... questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall to study computer science. Still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... is no online application for MIT transfer. To apply, you should print, complete, and mail the MIT Transfer Application to MIT Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and ... making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... lunch: the very collaborative nature of student work (surprising to her ... hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... are smarter than me. So I'm sure some of you know the answer to this ... of water, basically waiting for some major accident to happen. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  little breath of sunshine to your day between cramming your 18.02 homework and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... of time to review the materials that are sent in so please be concise

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... that ability to convey lots of meaning very succinctly is vital in any ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  what kind of data would be helpful to answering your question. This ... of data that doesn't relate to my question. Maybe the data is ... locations where each player (in a virtual game of hide and seek) chose to hide

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do ... primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006