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  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as well as our good friend Garrett '11, were working on something awesome ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the iHouse International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend ... now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on ... ;summiting the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Some of you who ... will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for

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

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one-question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized ... conveniently cut off uniform sized strips or squares of 2" (50.8 mm) length. The thickness of all Parafilm products is 0.005 (127 um) and although we are often

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to ... 'll see that violent crime on campus is basically unheard of. Expensive ... (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... On Friday, my friend Weywey '06 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering ... through this entire bin of orange, red, and green markers until she found

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... ended up spending a lot of my time over on the east side of campus, which ... celebrate the end of the first week of school, I went to Boston Calling on

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  default to one of these shirts. Anyways, as I was unpacking my clothes for this semester I happened to stumble upon two fresh new victims. So, I ... want a better version of a t-shirt blog, check out Aiden's here. But

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow ... of snow built up on the ground, I felt this sort of intense kind of joy ... got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of ... time, but since I was staying on campus an extra day, I heard tons of ... were immediately met by the issue of Walker closing at 10 pm on the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  living on the third floor of the [annotation note="East Campus is a dorm ... six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I ... of my on campus life is upon me. This may seem particularly granular ... primarily of on campus hallmates, was still very alive this semester. I'm so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... of the deadline. Your school/teachers may submit their materials ... processing of all submitted materials.  If something was submitted for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... . From what I hear, MIT students tend not to do as well on the exam as they

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... at me. I didn't do it. Speaking of EC, this evening when I was walking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006