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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  more than most people take here. Especially on top of being the ... much. ‘Nuf said. And of course there are other things I missed out on ... second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  orchard on recommendation by one of the employees. I skipped ahead and ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  good. And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of four, exhale on a count of four. Repeat twice more. You’re gonna be okay ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the ... concert on campus. This year's Spring Concert features Jason Derulo and ... Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  !" Catch you on the flip side of a p-set and 6.003 test! ... really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  fourth grader. I am reminded of an interview that I heard on public radio ... a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  about me, in general. I live on 5th East, my wonderful hall in the dorm of ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  loosely based on Taming of the Shrew. I remember the school most from the ... tomorrow. You may wonder what Admissions Officers do when they're on the road on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... ? > 3 - Who says the most words on average? 0 - Overview of Part I ... calculated the number of words that a character spoke on average by dividing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023